{"nrhp_refnum":"83004002","name":"West Badin Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Sims, Lincoln, Marion, and Lee Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Badin","county":"Stanly County","state":"NC","lat":35.40874567000003,"lon":-80.1244168496383,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"West Badin Historic District is a residential and institutional district in Badin, Stanly County, North Carolina, built mainly around 1920 by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) to house workers, with churches, a school and a small commercial cluster.","why_significant":"The evaluation sheet records the district as accepted under Criteria A and C. The surviving company-built bungalows, duplexes, churches and the 1925 Badin Colored School show Alcoa's planned community for Black workers at the Badin Works. The form does not give a full statement of significance in the text provided.","narrative":"West Badin is a company-built neighborhood in Badin, North Carolina, laid out largely around 1920 by the Aluminum Company of America for workers at the nearby Badin Works. Most of the surviving housing is one-story and frame: two types of bungalow, many with screened porches, exposed rafter ends and slate roofs, and a duplex type with a gable-front roof and high brick foundation. Inventory entries show dozens of cottages and duplexes along streets such as Grant, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wayne. Institutional buildings include the brick Baptist Church and McDonald's Chapel AME Zion Church, both with Gothic elements, and the Badin Colored School of 1925, which was topped with an aluminum-shingled roof described as the first of its kind in North Carolina. A small group of brick commercial buildings has been altered and now stands vacant. The district was accepted for its historic and architectural importance as a planned industrial community.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Southern Aluminum Company (pre-1915 structures, designed by Pierson and Goodrich); Aluminum Company of America (1915-1926 structures, designed by G. H. Giesey)","architectural_style":"Bungalows and duplexes; Gothic-style churches; school with classical details","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The original brick commercial buildings are described as altered, vacant and vandalized; West Badin Elementary School is listed as vacant in the inventory.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.2517-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/7184/47718471/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83004002.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718471","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Badin_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19946135"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stanly-county/west-badin-historic-district-83004002/"}