{"nrhp_refnum":"86003376","name":"Central Leaksville Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Dempsey-Reynolds-Taylor House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lindsay, Monroe, Jay, Washington, & Kemp Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eden","county":"Rockingham County","state":"NC","lat":36.49200898700005,"lon":-79.76785246517929,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-12-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the western part of Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina, covering about sixteen city blocks of Leaksville's oldest remaining neighborhood. It includes 67 contributing buildings, mostly houses dating from the 1810s to about 1935.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as the largest concentration of Leaksville's oldest surviving residences, with a wide range of architectural styles from antebellum Greek Revival to 1930s period revival. Its fabric dates mainly from the 1850s to c. 1935. The form also notes work by local architect J. W. Hopper.","narrative":"Central Leaksville is a compact residential neighborhood of about sixteen blocks in western Eden, North Carolina, and contains the oldest residential area of the former town of Leaksville, established in 1795. Hilly, tree-shaded streets hold one-, one-and-a-half- and two-story houses, mostly of frame construction. The earliest is the c. 1815 Rogers-Martin-Taylor House, and a c. 1820 brick detached kitchen is thought to be a rare survivor. Later buildings show a broad run of styles: Greek Revival houses of the 1840s and 1860s, Italianate and Queen Anne houses, Foursquares, bungalows, and 1920s period revival homes. Several were designed by local architect J. W. Hopper, including his own Tudor Revival house and the Colonial Revival Millner-Barker House of 1928. The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, built in 1844, is the oldest church building in continuous use in Eden. The boundaries enclose the largest cluster of Leaksville's oldest surviving homes, and most later intrusions are modest in effect.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J. W. (James W.) Hopper, local architect (designed several houses in the district)","architectural_style":"Varied: vernacular I-houses, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Foursquare, bungalow, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district is almost entirely residential and occupied, with one church and three former houses now in commercial or office use. The former Leaksville Hospital is now apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.273554-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/7220/47722001/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86003376.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Leaksville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19871951"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rockingham-county/central-leaksville-historic-district-86003376/"}