{"nrhp_refnum":"84001909","name":"Atlantic Bank and Trust Company Building","other_names":["North Carolina National Bank Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"358 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burlington","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.09338118200003,"lon":-79.43732311699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nine-story steel-framed Art Deco bank and office tower at 358 South Main Street in downtown Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina, built in 1928-1929 for the Atlantic Bank and Trust Company and designed by Charles C. Hartmann.","why_significant":"The building is Burlington's only true skyscraper and its only full-blown example of Art Deco, and it expresses the prosperity and civic pride of the city from the mid-1910s to 1930. It was designed by Charles C. Hartmann, a leading North Carolina architect. The three related banks that owned and occupied it played leading roles in the local economy.","narrative":"Rising nine stories above South Main Street and East Davis Street, this steel-framed Art Deco tower was built in 1928-1929 for the Atlantic Bank and Trust Company. It remains the tallest feature of Burlington's skyline and the city's only true skyscraper. Charles C. Hartmann of Greensboro, a Beaux Arts-trained architect, designed it, and J.R. Owen and Son served as general contractor. Granite ornament covers the lower and upper floors, with carved ribbons, eagles, sunbursts and Aztec-derived masks, while light yellow brick fills the middle floors. Bank offices occupied the lower floors and rental offices the upper ones. The banking quarters were altered in the 1940s and 1961, but the exterior and the upper floors remain largely intact. The building is significant as a symbol of the prosperity that fed a citywide building boom in the 1920s, as the work of a notable architect, and as Burlington's only full example of Art Deco. The form lists it as vacant.","period_of_significance":"1928-29","architect_builder":"Charles C. Hartmann (architect); J.R. Owen and Son of Greensboro (general contractor)","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Listed in the form's present-use section as vacant. The exterior is described as remarkably intact, while the banking quarters were substantially altered in the 1940s and 1961.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.827867-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/7172/47717228/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84001909.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001909/9b3c841571-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001909/9b3c841571-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kenneth A. Rivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Bank_and_Trust_Company.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:Atlantic_Bank_and_Trust_Company.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90001320","name":"Downtown Burlington Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/downtown-burlington-historic-district-additional-documentation-90001320/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bank_and_Trust_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17513885"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/atlantic-bank-and-trust-company-building-84001909/"}