{"nrhp_refnum":"86003146","name":"Windsor Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by York, Water, Sutton, and Elmo Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Windsor","county":"Bertie County","state":"NC","lat":35.99721155150007,"lon":-76.94497790041504,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Windsor Historic District comprises most of the town of Windsor, the county seat of Bertie County in eastern North Carolina, founded in 1768 and containing about 156 properties on sixteen blocks. It has a residential section along King, Queen and York streets and a commercial section centered on King and Granville streets.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Windsor retains enough of its nineteenth and early twentieth century fabric to represent the evolution of a small eastern North Carolina town. It cites a range of architectural styles from Georgian and Greek Revival houses to Queen Anne, Neoclassical and Bungalow examples, and brick commercial buildings built after an 1888 fire. The district is described as representative of its kind and typical for its time and place rather than as having many individually outstanding buildings.","narrative":"Windsor, the county seat of Bertie County, was established by the colonial Assembly in 1768 on a one-hundred acre tract on the Cashie River, laid out as a grid with lots that buyers were required to build on within three years. The historic district covers most of the original town, with about 156 properties on sixteen blocks. Its residential streets hold houses from the Georgian period, including the Cherry House on York Street, one of only two eighteenth-century gambrel-roofed dwellings in the county, through Greek Revival and Queen Anne houses of the 1880s and 1890s to Bungalow examples. The commercial blocks along King and Granville streets were rebuilt in brick after a fire in 1888, and many of the two-story storefronts remain. The district is regarded as representative of a small eastern North Carolina town's development over more than a century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian, Greek Revival, Federal, Victorian, Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.050173-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/7190/47719063/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86003146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003146/86ecb1a184-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003146/86ecb1a184-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Theresaperry44","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_house_in_Windsor.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Theresaperry44</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_house_in_Windsor.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719063","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Historic_District_(Windsor,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18159322"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bertie-county/windsor-historic-district-86003146/"}