{"nrhp_refnum":"83001924","name":"Moore Square Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Person, Morgan, Wilmington, and Davie Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.777550984000044,"lon":-78.63686761130097,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-08-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Commerce","Black","Religion","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial and mixed-use historic district in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, centered on Moore Square and bounded roughly by Person, Martin, Wilmington and Davie streets. Its buildings are mostly late 19th and early 20th century commercial blocks.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district documents the meeting of a traditional residential neighborhood with commercial growth in a moderate-sized southern town before 1920. Its small-scale brick shops, market and trade buildings show the era of the small businessman. It also contains a historically Black commercial street and institutions, with its present character formed between about 1900 and 1930.","narrative":"Moore Square Historic District is a section of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, arranged around the green space of Moore Square and the surrounding blocks of Wilmington, Hargett, Martin, Blount and Davie streets. Most of its buildings are two and three story brick commercial blocks, many with altered ground floors but intact upper stories showing Italianate details such as bracketed cornices and arched windows. Notable buildings include the ca. 1875 Heilig-Levine Building, the 1912 Montague Building, the 1913 Gothic Revival bank by Atlanta architect P.T. Mayre, the 1914 Mission Style City Market, and Tabernacle Baptist Church. The area grew as commercial activity spread from Fayetteville Street into formerly residential blocks, serving farmers, grocers, merchants and small shopkeepers. It also held an ethnically mixed population and a Black Main Street. The district is valued for showing the scale and quality of commercial development in a mid-sized southern town before 1920, and for the surviving granite curbs and mature trees of the square.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"P.T. Mayre (First Citizens Bank, 1913); Adolphus G. Bauer and James Matthew Kennedy (Tabernacle Baptist Church alterations)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century commercial architecture with Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Gothic Revival, Mission Style and Art Moderne examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, good, fair and deteriorated, with buildings altered and unaltered. Some sites are vacant, and the form notes more destruction than modernization.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.963404-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7224/47722449/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001924.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001924/47ab519279-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001924/47ab519279-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jmturner","credit_html":"Jmturner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raleigh-City-Market-20080321.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722449","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_Square_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6908231"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/moore-square-historic-district-83001924/"}