{"nrhp_refnum":"83001860","name":"Market House Square District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Hay, Person, Green, and Gillespie Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.052621534000025,"lon":-78.87853695199993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown commercial district of eleven structures around Market House Square in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, centered on the 1830s Market House. The ten non-landmark buildings were built between about 1884 and 1926.","why_significant":"The district illustrates the commercial development of Fayetteville's downtown from the late eighteenth century onward and contains a sampling of late nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial architecture, from Italianate and Second Empire storefronts to a Norman Revival fraternal hall, a Mediterranean Revival office building, and a Neo-Classical bank tower. The Market House, a National Historic Landmark, anchors the group.","narrative":"Eleven structures surround Market House Square in downtown Fayetteville, the focal point being the brick Market House of the 1830s, modeled on an eighteenth century English town hall with an open arcade, a cupola and a low dome. The remaining ten buildings were erected between about 1884 and 1926 and show a range of styles across a single commercial block. Twin Italianate storefronts at 106 and 108 Person Street have metal window heads and a shared bracketed cornice. The Sedberry-MacKethan Drugstore, a three-story building with a bell-cast mansard roof, is in the Second Empire style. The Knights of Pythias hall of about 1893 is in the Norman Revival style, and the Stein-Lawyer's Building of about 1916 has Mediterranean Revival features. The ten-story First Citizen's Bank Building, opened in 1926, is Neo-Classical and was the tallest building in the city for many years. The group records how Fayetteville's commercial center grew and changed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles C. Hartmann (architect of the First Citizen's Bank Building); the Market House architect is unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate, Second Empire, Late Victorian revival, Norman Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"All but one or two of the structures are currently in use; the Hay Street building at 103 is vacant at present, and offices in the Stein-Lawyer's Building are described as mostly vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.573305-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/7175/47717571/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001860.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001860/f0e3a87bcf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001860/f0e3a87bcf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Epicjeff","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Market_House_in_Fayetteville,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Epicjeff</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Market_House_in_Fayetteville,_NC.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717571","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_House_Square_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18216964"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/market-house-square-district-83001860/"}