{"nrhp_refnum":"84000736","name":"Old Wilson Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Rountree, Moses, House","Davis-Whitehead-Harriss Hous"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Nash, N. Cone, Gold and Railroad Sts. and Maplewood Cemetery","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilson","county":"Wilson County","state":"NC","lat":35.73290829550004,"lon":-77.91031521443813,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the northeastern part of Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina, made up of all or parts of five adjacent neighborhoods: Maplewood, Woodard Circle, Whitehead Place, College Place and Rountree Place. It contains houses, apartment buildings, churches and small grocery stores dating from the 1850s through the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district holds notable examples of nearly all major architectural styles from the 1850s to the 1930s, and it housed Wilson's merchants, clerks, shopkeepers and working people rather than its wealthiest families. It includes surviving Italianate and Gothic Revival houses, Victorian cottages, Queen Anne residences, Colonial Revival houses and one of the finest bungalow collections in North Carolina. A mature oak tree canopy unifies it.","narrative":"Old Wilson Historic District covers a group of five adjoining neighborhoods in the northeastern part of Wilson, North Carolina: Maplewood, Woodard Circle, Whitehead Place, College Place and Rountree Place. While the city's wealthiest families settled along West Nash Street, this area housed merchants, clerks, shopkeepers and other middle-class and working people. Its buildings range from impressive Queen Anne houses on Woodard Circle to modest frame dwellings near Atlantic Christian College. The district includes a few mid-nineteenth-century Italianate and Gothic Revival houses, late Victorian cottages, turn-of-the-century Queen Anne residences, gable-front rental houses, Colonial Revival homes and one of the finest collections of bungalows in North Carolina. Four brick apartment buildings, brick churches and small neighborhood groceries also stand here. Houses were frame until the 1910s, when brick came into use. Mature hardwood street trees, mostly oaks, shade the flat terrain and tie the neighborhoods together. The area was listed for its architectural variety and its record of the city's residential growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival and bungalow","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Marked occupied and in good condition, with mixed private residential, religious and commercial use; the form lists the original site as unmoved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.940953-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/7228/47722871/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000736.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722871","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Wilson_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085419"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wilson-county/old-wilson-historic-district-84000736/"}