{"nrhp_refnum":"85000703","name":"Geitner, Clement, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"436 Main Ave. NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hickory","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.732678347000046,"lon":-81.34569908799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick, double-pile house built in 1882 at 436 Main Avenue NW in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, for tanner Clement Geitner. It shows Italianate influence and has a mid-twentieth-century rear addition.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the Geitner family, among the leading industrial, financial and civic families of late nineteenth-century Hickory. Clement Geitner opened the town's second and largest tannery, and his sons Charles and George Harvey served as business leaders and mayors. His daughter Mary Geitner was prominent in literary and civic circles. It was also among the first brick houses in its neighborhood and the city.","narrative":"Built in 1882, this two-story brick house on Main Avenue in northwest Hickory was the home of tanner Clement Geitner, who moved from Lititz, Pennsylvania, and opened the town's second and largest tannery. It was the first brick house in its neighborhood and one of the first in the city. Paired windows, bracketed eaves, a three-sided bay window and segmental porch arches reflect Italianate influence, and a center-hall plan with beaded wainscot and a bulls-eye detailed stair survives inside. Geitner's sons Charles and George Harvey became bank directors, industrial investors, school board leaders and mayors, and his daughter Mary was active in the city's literary and civic life. The American Legion used the house from 1938, and a natural gas company bought it in 1962 and added a large rear wing. Its importance rests on its link to one of Hickory's most influential families and to the city's economic growth.","period_of_significance":"1882","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate influence","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Fair condition; used by a gas company as a service center, after earlier use as an American Legion headquarters. The form says it has been poorly maintained for twenty years but remains largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.215714-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7174/47717400/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85000703.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000703/19d97a9131-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000703/19d97a9131-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tylerg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clement_Geitner_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tylerg</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:Clement_Geitner_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717400","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Geitner_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18150639"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/geitner-clement-house-85000703/"}