{"nrhp_refnum":"87001931","name":"West Union Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Mountain View","Riddle, Dr. Joseph Bennett, House","Tat"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly parts of W. Union St., Montrose St., & Riverside Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morganton","county":"Burke County","state":"NC","lat":35.73946618650007,"lon":-81.69628501423531,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, along sections of West Union Street, Montrose Street and Riverside Drive. It contains 75 buildings (48 primary, 27 secondary) dating from ca. 1815 to ca. 1940, on about 32.5 acres.","why_significant":"The district holds Morganton's most stylistically sophisticated collection of residential architecture, including Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses built for the town's most prominent citizens. It reflects the 1890s wave of development and the 1920s-30s Colonial Revival building boom. Several houses were designed by architects from Charlotte and New York.","narrative":"West Union Street, Montrose Street and Riverside Drive in Morganton form a residential district of 75 buildings, 62 of them contributing, built between about 1815 and 1940. West Union Street grew from the Asheville Highway and was an early residential area outside the original town grid. The first major wave of building came in the 1890s, when prosperous citizens built large Queen Anne houses on landscaped lots. A second wave in the 1920s and 1930s made the area a showcase of Colonial Revival architecture. Notable examples include the Kistler-Stoney House, designed by Charlotte architect M. R. Marsh, and the stone Franklin P. Tate House, designed by New York architect Electus Litchfield. Bungalows, Tudor Revival houses and the ca. 1815 Mountain View Plantation House add variety. Garages built to match the houses form a distinctive group of secondary buildings. Some modern houses and a 1970 church complex are noncontributing, but the district retains its historic character.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1815-ca. 1940","architect_builder":"Various (including M. R. Marsh and Louis Asbury of Charlotte, and Electus D. Litchfield of New York)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, bungalow, Tudor Revival and vernacular Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses are generally well maintained; condition marked excellent/good. Nearly all historic properties remain single-family residences, and one house is used by the First Baptist Church.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.307954-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7173/47717348/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87001931.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717348","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Union_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18159222"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/burke-county/west-union-street-historic-district-87001931/"}