{"nrhp_refnum":"88000166","name":"Elon College Historic District","other_names":["Elon College"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"S side of Haggard Ave. between William and O'Kelly","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elon College","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.10208036200004,"lon":-79.50446821799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-03-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district at the core of the Elon College campus in the town of Elon College, Alamance County, North Carolina, containing eight resources: West Dormitory (1907), five brick buildings from 1923-1927, a 1970 building and a 1929 monument.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district has statewide educational significance as the only four-year college operated by the Christian Church in the South. It also has architectural significance: West Dormitory is an early institutional Colonial Revival building, and the five 1920s buildings by Herbert B. Hunter are textbook collegiate Georgian Revival buildings arranged in an H-shaped plan.","narrative":"Elon College Historic District covers the historic center of a college campus in Alamance County, North Carolina, midway between Burlington and Greensboro. It holds eight resources: West Dormitory of 1907, five three-story brick buildings built between 1923 and 1927, a 1970 building that does not contribute to the district's character, and an 1929 granite monument to James O'Kelly, founder of the Christian Church. The 1920s buildings, designed by Burlington architect Herbert B. Hunter, form an H-shaped group after a 1923 fire destroyed the Main Building. Alamance Building forms the crossbar, with Whitley, Carlton, Duke and Mooney buildings at right angles, linked by brick arcades. West Dormitory, an early Colonial Revival design with Jacobean touches, is the oldest surviving campus building. The district was listed for its architecture and for its link to Elon College, founded in 1889 as the only four-year college of the Christian Church in the South. The campus continues as a college, and the buildings largely keep their original plans and finishes.","period_of_significance":"1907-1931","architect_builder":"Hunter, Herbert B., architect; Stout, Joe W., contractor","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a college campus, with education and education-related housing as current functions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.879596-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7188/47718850/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88000166.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000166/e6bcff8731-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000166/e6bcff8731-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"MPD01605 from Sterling, Virginia, United States, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alamance_Building,_Elon_University.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">MPD01605 from Sterling, Virginia, United States, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alamance_Building,_Elon_University.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718850","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_College_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17508880"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/elon-college-historic-district-88000166/"}