{"nrhp_refnum":"87002233","name":"Shaver Rental Houses District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"303, 309 & 315 W. Council & 120 N. Jackson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.67007823200004,"lon":-80.47118750699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-01-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small district of four Queen Anne style frame rental houses at the southwest corner of West Council and North Jackson Streets in Salisbury, North Carolina. Three two-story houses on West Council were built about 1907 and a one-story cottage at 120 North Jackson dates from about 1899.","why_significant":"The houses are significant under Criterion C as representative examples of boarding house and single-family rental housing built in Salisbury between 1899 and 1910, when the city's population doubled after the Southern Railroad shops opened. They also embody features of modest Queen Anne architecture and remain remarkably intact inside and out.","narrative":"Four Queen Anne style frame houses stand together at the southwest corner of West Council and North Jackson Streets in Salisbury. Three two-story houses at 303, 309 and 315 West Council were built about 1907 by landlord Edwin Shaver; one served as a boarding house and another as a Lutheran parsonage. The one-story cottage at 120 North Jackson was built about 1899 by Dr. John Whitehead and was moved from across the street in 1986 to avoid demolition for church parking. The houses retain original interiors, including beaded pine wainscoting, classical mantels and early plumbing fixtures. They were listed as examples of rental housing built when Salisbury's population doubled between 1900 and 1910, after the Southern Railroad opened its repair shops nearby. The group is also notable as the only turn-of-the-century buildings left in their block, and it illustrates modest Queen Anne design popular until about 1910.","period_of_significance":"ca 1899-1910","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by landlords Edwin Shaver and Dr. John Whitehead)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed in the form's current functions as vacant/not in use; the Historic Salisbury Foundation planned adaptive reuse. The Jackson Street cottage was moved to its present site in 1986.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.523548-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7220/47722066/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87002233.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002233/f138491a36-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002233/f138491a36-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ncpappy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaver_Rental_Houses,_Salisbury_NC.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ncpappy</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:Shaver_Rental_Houses,_Salisbury_NC.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75001289","name":"Salisbury Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/salisbury-historic-district-75001289/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722066","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaver_Rental_Houses_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20713447"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/shaver-rental-houses-district-87002233/"}