{"nrhp_refnum":"85001347","name":"North Long Street-Park Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"North Long St. and Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.66683258550006,"lon":-80.46113061376423,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-06-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in east Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, covering the 400-500 blocks of N. Long Street and the 400-600 blocks of Park Avenue, with a few dwellings on adjacent blocks. It is L-shaped and contains mainly frame houses built from the 1890s through the mid-1920s.","why_significant":"The district is presented as an example of late nineteenth and early twentieth century residential neighborhoods in Salisbury that grew out of the city's manufacturing and commercial expansion and the railroad facilities at nearby Spencer. Its mix of elaborate houses built by prosperous businessmen and smaller houses for clerks, salesmen and railroad workers is described as unusual. It also has a notable group of late Victorian, turn-of-the-century and Bungalow-era houses.","narrative":"Frame houses lining the 400 and 500 blocks of N. Long Street and the 400 to 600 blocks of Park Avenue in east Salisbury make up this residential district, built mostly between 1891 and the mid-1920s. The Central Land Company, organized by local businessmen including John S. Henderson, Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless and J. Samuel McCubbins, bought about 255 acres from Edwin Shaver in 1891 and began selling lots. Early houses along Park Avenue were large and elaborate, while later houses were smaller rental and middle-income homes for clerks, salesmen and railroad workers. The growth followed the Kesler Manufacturing Company mill of 1895 and Southern Railway's repair shops at nearby Spencer. The district is significant for its mix of late Victorian, turn-of-the-century and Bungalow domestic architecture, and for documenting how a prosperous neighborhood became a socially mixed one.","period_of_significance":"1891-1926","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; modest turn-of-the-century; Bungalow","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The district has a high degree of architectural integrity, with a few demolitions and modern intrusions; much housing has been rented to low-income residents since the late 1950s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.716923-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7220/47722068/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85001347.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001347/45c44f7474-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001347/45c44f7474-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ncpappy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Park_Ave_Salisbury_NC;_M%26M_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ncpappy</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:Park_Ave_Salisbury_NC;_M%26M_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722068","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Long_Street%E2%80%93Park_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987334"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/north-long-street-park-avenue-historic-district-85001347/"}