{"nrhp_refnum":"84002269","name":"O'Hanlon Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"103 W. 4th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.09848974300007,"lon":-80.24526026599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story commercial building at the northwest corner of Fourth and Liberty Streets in downtown Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, built in 1915 with a drug store on the ground floor and offices above.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with the early twentieth-century commercial boom in Winston-Salem, for its link to pharmacist Edward W. O'Hanlon, and as an example of early skyscraper design in the eclectic classical manner by architect Willard C. Northup. It was the city's tallest building until 1917 and remains a landmark at the gateway to Fourth Street.","narrative":"Built in 1915 at the northwest corner of Fourth and Liberty Streets in Winston-Salem, the eight-story O'Hanlon Building was designed by architect Willard C. Northup in a classical scheme with a terra cotta base, a brick shaft and a terra cotta eighth story and cornice. Its ground floor held O'Hanlon's Drug Store, which had a soda fountain, a mezzanine tea garden and fixtures from firms in Columbus, Georgia and Philadelphia. Edward W. O'Hanlon, a pharmacist who came to Winston in 1892, commissioned the building after a fire destroyed his earlier store in 1913. Until 1917 it was the tallest building in the city, and the corner was long known as O'Hanlon's Corner. The building is regarded as an important example of early twentieth-century commercial prosperity and of the eclectic skyscraper style in the city. Its upper floors have stood largely empty since the 1970s.","period_of_significance":"1915","architect_builder":"Willard C. Northup (architect)","architectural_style":"Classical; eclectic early skyscraper","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Most upper-floor office space has remained vacant and deteriorating since the 1970s, according to the document; in 1983 a Durham development corporation held an option to renovate it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.233132-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7201/47720198/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84002269.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002269/38a5ad205b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002269/38a5ad205b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jeff Skidmore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O%27hanian_building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Skidmore</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:O%27hanian_building.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100008467","name":"Downtown Winston-Salem Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/downtown-winston-salem-historic-district-100008467/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720198","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Hanlon_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18706052"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/ohanlon-building-84002269/"}