{"nrhp_refnum":"86000676","name":"North Carolina Central University","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Lawson St., Alston Ave., Nelson, and Fayette Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.97546671600003,"lon":-78.89976192799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic college campus district on about a block bounded by Lawson St., Alston Ave., Nelson St. and Fayetteville St., about a mile southeast of downtown Durham, North Carolina. The nominated portion holds eleven buildings, mostly Georgian Revival, built between 1925 and 1963.","why_significant":"The campus grew from a school founded in 1909 by Dr. James E. Shepard into the North Carolina College for Negroes, the first state-supported four-year liberal arts college for Black students in the nation. The nomination also credits the buildings as fine examples of Georgian Revival architecture, including three by Atwood and Nash and five designed by government architects for a Public Works Administration building program.","narrative":"North Carolina Central University occupies a campus about a mile southeast of downtown Durham. The nominated area holds eleven buildings, centered on the Clyde R. Hoey Administration Building and a sunken courtyard. Most are brick Georgian Revival structures with slate hipped roofs and limestone details. The Durham firm of Atwood and Nash designed Hoey, Dunn and Shepard halls in 1929 and 1930. Five more buildings followed in the late 1930s under a Public Works Administration program, echoing those earlier designs. The school began in 1909 as a private training school founded by Dr. James E. Shepard, became a state institution in 1923, and in 1925 was reorganized as the North Carolina College for Negroes, described as the nation's first state-supported four-year liberal arts college for Black students. The campus reflects Shepard's leadership and the achievements of Durham's Black community in the early twentieth century. Landscaped terraces, stone benches and tree-filled grounds complete the setting.","period_of_significance":"1929-30; 1935-39 (specific dates stated)","architect_builder":"Atwood & Nash; Public Works Admin. architects","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition, with buildings in use as university classrooms, dormitories and offices; some altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.818432-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7177/47717735/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000676.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000676/e16d331345-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000676/e16d331345-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RDUpedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NCCU_campus_grounds.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">RDUpedia</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:NCCU_campus_grounds.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717735","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111372019"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/north-carolina-central-university-86000676/"}