{"nrhp_refnum":"85001054","name":"Kenworth Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 2nd Ave., 5th St. and 3rd Ave. Dr. SE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hickory","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.727856100000054,"lon":-81.32909186199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small, mostly residential historic district of twenty-three primary structures on about nine acres in southeast Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, centered on Fifth Street and the north side of Second Avenue. It was laid out in the city's first subdivision, Kenworth, and built mainly between about 1920 and 1926.","why_significant":"The district is described as Hickory's finest and most varied collection of bungalows, which make up about seventy percent of its buildings. The houses are visually cohesive in scale, siting, materials and detail, and they show how the city's first subdivision developed in a short span of time. The district also includes a 1913 school, a 1926 Neo-Gothic church and three Colonial Revival houses.","narrative":"Kenworth Historic District is a compact neighborhood of twenty-three main buildings on roughly nine acres in southeast Hickory. It occupies the northwest corner of the original Kenworth subdivision, the city's first, and was built almost entirely between about 1920 and 1926. Fifth Street, entered between paired stone piers off Second Avenue, is its principal street. About seventy percent of the buildings are bungalows, and the group is described as the most varied and impressive collection of the type in Hickory. The houses share similar setbacks, lot sizes, gabled porches, exposed purlin brackets, tapered porch posts and stone or brick foundations suited to the sloping terrain. Other buildings include three Colonial Revival houses, the 1913 Kenworth Elementary School, and the 1926 Neo-Gothic former Christ Lutheran Church, now Mount Zion Baptist Church. The district was listed because its buildings form a cohesive, intact group that contrasts with the newer development around it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow, with Colonial Revival houses and a Neo-Gothic Revival church","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked as good, fair and deteriorated, and altered and unaltered. The former Christ Lutheran Church is now Mount Zion Baptist Church, rededicated in 1979. Most buildings are private residences.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.622319-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/7174/47717433/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85001054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001054/826c6d3f58-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001054/826c6d3f58-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tylerg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_in_Kenworth_Historic_District_Hickory_North_Carolina.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:House_in_Kenworth_Historic_District_Hickory_North_Carolina.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000435","name":"Kenworth Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/kenworth-historic-district-boundary-increase-05000435/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717433","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenworth_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18153104"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/kenworth-historic-district-85001054/"}