{"nrhp_refnum":"84000359","name":"West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Bounded by Front, W. Webb, S. Fisher, E. Willowbrook, W. Davis Sts., and Fountain Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burlington","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.09505836200006,"lon":-79.44433771568956,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 7 acres in Burlington, North Carolina, covering the 400 through 1000 blocks of West Davis Street, the 400 through 700 blocks of West Front Street, connecting cross streets and Fountain Place. It holds roughly 160 primary structures built from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district holds the most significant collection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential architecture in Burlington. It shows the range of house types and styles built for the city's growing middle class, from vernacular cottages and Queen Anne houses to Colonial, Georgian and Tudor Revival houses, Foursquares and bungalows. It also shows the neighborhood's westward growth, including the 1920s Fountain Place development.","narrative":"West Davis Street and West Front Street in Burlington, North Carolina, form a tree-lined neighborhood of about 160 principal buildings, mostly houses built between the late 1800s and the 1930s for the city's growing middle class. Broad avenues shaded by tall hardwoods carry large Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes on spacious lots, such as the 1894 Dr. T. W. Patterson House and the 1902 Dr. Thomas S. Faucette House. Later Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival and Mediterranean-style houses appear toward the west end, while Foursquares and bungalows fill in throughout. Fountain Place, a 1920s subdivision, is centered on a landscaped fountain and marked by stone pillars and low stone walls at its entrance. Churches occupy large tracts at the east end. The district was listed because it is the best surviving concentration of Burlington's residential architecture from this period, showing how styles and lot patterns changed as the neighborhood spread westward.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival, Colonial/Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, Foursquare, bungalow and Period Houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent and good, with both altered and unaltered elements; the district is occupied. Two adjoining lots in the 700 block of West Davis Street have been empty for many years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.651852-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7188/47718874/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000359.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718874","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Davis_Street%E2%80%93Fountain_Place_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17560781"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/west-davis-street-fountain-place-historic-district-84000359/"}