{"nrhp_refnum":"85003217","name":"Martin, Harden Thomas, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"204 N. Mendenhall St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07454845900003,"lon":-79.80215742699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-12-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame, two-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival residence with a hip roof at 204 N. Mendenhall Street in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, completed in early 1909 and designed by architect G. Will Armfield.","why_significant":"The house is one of a dwindling number of fine early Colonial Revival residences surviving in Greensboro, with a bowed two-story Ionic portico, a wide center hall with split-run stair, and largely intact interior trim. It is also the only known residential design of G. Will Armfield, a merchant who became an architect late in life, and was built for merchant Harden Thomas Martin.","narrative":"Set among mature oaks just west of downtown Greensboro, this two-and-a-half-story frame house was completed in early 1909 for Harden Thomas Martin, a Rockingham County storekeeper who moved to Greensboro in semi-retirement and dabbled in real estate. Greensboro architect G. Will Armfield, a former dry goods merchant who took up architecture in his late fifties, designed it. The Colonial Revival residence is best known for its bowed two-story portico with four fluted Ionic columns and terra cotta capitals, a full-width porch, and a porte-cochere. Inside, a twelve-foot center hall holds a split-run staircase and a columned portal, and all eight fireplaces retain their original mantels, tile and coal grates. The house is the only known residential design by Armfield. It was listed as a rare, remarkably well-preserved survivor of early Colonial Revival architecture in a city where most such houses were lost to redevelopment, and for its ties to Armfield and Martin.","period_of_significance":"1909","architect_builder":"G. Will Armfield","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; described as unaltered, in good condition, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.821061-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7205/47720540/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85003217.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003217/f6e23c5770-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003217/f6e23c5770-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harden_Thomas_Martin_House_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhpotter</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:Harden_Thomas_Martin_House_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720540","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harden_Thomas_Martin_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986968"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/martin-harden-thomas-house-85003217/"}