{"nrhp_refnum":"87002204","name":"Monroe Residential Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Hough, Franklin, Jefferson, McCarten, Windsor, Sanford, Washington. Braden, Church & Hudson Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Monroe","county":"Union County","state":"NC","lat":34.975659065500054,"lon":-80.5481331534354,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-01-06","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 of about 181 acres lying east, south and west of the central business district of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It holds 381 contributing and 90 noncontributing resources, mostly houses built between 1870 and 1940, plus churches and the earliest sections of Monroe Cemetery.","why_significant":"The district contains most of Monroe's residential area developed between 1870 and 1940. It has a wide range of architectural styles, especially many forms of the Classical Revival. The houses and grounds keep their integrity of design, setting, materials, workmanship and feeling despite some alterations.","narrative":"Monroe's residential historic district covers roughly 181 acres east, south and west of the downtown core in Union County, North Carolina. Most of the city's housing from 1870 to 1940 lies within its boundaries, from small cottages to large, imposing dwellings. Wood is the dominant material, with many brick-veneer bungalows and Colonial Revival houses from the 1920s and 1930s. Styles include Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Tudor, Spanish Mission, Colonial Revival and Craftsman, with Classical Revival the most prominent, including several large Neo-Classical houses with colossal porticos built between 1900 and 1915. The district also holds two churches, a senior citizens center, some houses converted to commercial use, and the oldest sections of Monroe Cemetery, where burials date from the 1850s. Streets follow a grid laid over rolling Piedmont hills and are lined with mature trees. Of 471 resources, 381 contribute to the district's character, and most houses are still used as homes.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Louis Asbury of Charlotte designed one house (English-Fairley House, 1909); most other architects and builders are not stated in the available text.","architectural_style":"Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Tudor Revival, Spanish Mission","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are in fair to good condition. Most houses remain in single-family use, some have been divided into apartments or rooming houses, and substantial rehabilitation is under way.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.615933-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7223/47722380/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87002204.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002204/c4b6006706-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002204/c4b6006706-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mpbusyb","credit_html":"Mpbusyb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monroe_Residential_Historic_District_(North_Carolina)_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722380","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Residential_Historic_District_(Monroe,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6902254"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/union-county/monroe-residential-historic-district-87002204/"}