{"nrhp_refnum":"83004000","name":"Badin Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by NC 740, Pine St., and Country Club property line","address_restricted":false,"city":"Badin","county":"Stanly County","state":"NC","lat":35.40468921400006,"lon":-80.11200208751052,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A company-town historic district in Badin, Stanly County, North Carolina, built 1912-1920 for workers at an aluminum smelting works, first by the French-owned Southern Aluminum Company and then by Alcoa.","why_significant":"The district preserves an intact planned company town with quadraplexes, duplexes, bungalows, a club house, hospital, school, churches and commercial buildings. The housing was designed by Goodrich and Pierson of New York and by G. H. Giesey of Pittsburgh. The nomination also notes the town's segregated layout, with Badin and West Badin as separate communities.","narrative":"Badin is a company town in Stanly County, North Carolina, laid out for workers at an aluminum smelting works. The French-owned Southern Aluminum Company built the first housing between 1912 and 1915, including two-story brick-chimneyed quadraplexes and duplexes designed by Goodrich and Pierson of New York. Alcoa added small bungalows from 1915 to 1920, designed by G. H. Giesey of Pittsburgh. Other surviving buildings include a clapboard club house with a colonnaded annex, a Flemish-bond brick hospital, a brick elementary school with a cupola, and classically inspired Baptist and Presbyterian churches. A brick commercial block and smaller shops along Falls Road remain, though largely unused. Alcoa sold the houses to individuals from the 1930s, and owners have since altered siding and porches, yet the shared plans still give the streets a unified look. The town was divided into white Badin and Black West Badin, a separation that persists. The district was listed for this planned industrial community and its architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Goodrich and Pierson of New York (Southern Aluminum Company housing); G. H. Giesey of Pittsburgh (Alcoa housing)","architectural_style":"Company-town housing: French-influenced quadraplexes, bungalows, French Colonial-reminiscent houses, and classical-style churches","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mixed: the Badin School is still an elementary school and the churches have active congregations; the former hospital is Alcoa offices; the small commercial buildings are largely vacant; West Badin's school is vacant and derelict.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.355003-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/7184/47718473/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83004000.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718473","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badin_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19901892"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stanly-county/badin-historic-district-83004000/"}