{"nrhp_refnum":"84001906","name":"Alamance Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Maple Ave. and S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burlington","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.09323129200004,"lon":-79.43965858499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-story hotel at the southeast corner of Maple Avenue and South Main Street in downtown Burlington, North Carolina, designed by Charles C. Hartmann and built in 1924.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel was the last in a series of downtown hotels and a visible symbol of the growth and prosperity of the 1920s, backed by a local stock-selling campaign led by business leaders. It is also the work of Charles C. Hartmann, a Greensboro architect trained in the Beaux Arts tradition.","narrative":"Rising seven stories at Maple Avenue and South Main Street, this brick hotel is one of two structures dominating Burlington's skyline. Charles C. Hartmann, a Greensboro architect trained in the Beaux Arts tradition, designed it in 1923-24. Its facades follow a three-part base, shaft and capital pattern, with reddish-brown brick, terra cotta bands and a coved terra cotta cornice on the top floor. Local business leaders organized the project through the Chamber of Commerce, and a stock campaign in July 1923 drew 730 investors. The hotel hosted dances, proms, political meetings and the 1949 county centennial opening. A 1945 renovation shrank the lobby and added street-level shops, altering the lower floors, though the upper exterior remains largely intact. The hotel closed in 1974. Its listing rests on its link to the prosperity of the 1920s and on Hartmann's work. At the time of listing it was being converted to housing for the elderly.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Charles C. Hartmann (architect); J.E. Beamon Construction Company of Raleigh (general contractor)","architectural_style":"Neoclassical \"base-shaft-capital\" organization with Beaux Arts styling","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Closed as a hotel on June 30, 1974; at the time of the form it was being rehabilitated as subsidized housing for the elderly.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.448105-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7172/47717230/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84001906.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001906/6619b92720-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001906/6619b92720-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kenneth A. Rivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alamance_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth A. Rivers</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alamance_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717230","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamance_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17510442"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/alamance-hotel-84001906/"}