{"nrhp_refnum":"89000760","name":"Salisbury Historic District (Boundary Increase II)","other_names":["See Also:Salisbury Historic District","Salisbury Historic Dist"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ellis St., Monroe St., Church St., Bank St., S. Main St., and McCubbins St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.66541956300003,"lon":-80.47797847398385,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential boundary increase to the Salisbury Historic District in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, comprising a former fire house, the Kress Building and Star Laundry downtown, and roughly ten blocks of houses between S. Fulton and S. Main streets built from the late 1870s through the 1940s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the extension contains a varied group of late Victorian, turn-of-the-century, bungalow, four-square and Colonial Revival houses built by prominent Salisbury citizens and working-class residents alike. It states the area shaped the growth of residential neighborhoods around downtown Salisbury, and that the downtown commercial buildings were inadvertently omitted from the original district.","narrative":"Residential streets south and west of downtown Salisbury hold a mix of houses built between the late 1870s and the 1940s, forming an extension to the Salisbury Historic District. The area developed slowly at first, with seven houses built by 1899 and the Heilig family holding much of the central land until the 1920s. Growth accelerated in the 1900s and 1910s, when bungalows and four-squares went up along W. Thomas and S. Fulton streets, and it peaked in the 1920s, when thirty-six houses were built. Prominent figures including James Samuel McCubbins, Herman Heilig and Walter F. McCanless commissioned houses here. Styles range from frame Victorian dwellings and craftsman bungalows to brick Colonial Revival houses from the 1930s. The extension also includes the 1910 S.H. Kress Building and the ca. 1925 Star Laundry Building downtown. The district is significant for its architectural variety and for its role in the city's early twentieth-century residential expansion.","period_of_significance":"1879-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Foursquare; Vernacular Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The former Salisbury Fire House was separately listed on January 6, 1988; the document gives no current condition for the residential area.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.794734-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/7221/47722120/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89000760.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000760/173138a110-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000760/173138a110-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kharris0317","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WSQ_Maxwell_Chambers_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kharris0317</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WSQ_Maxwell_Chambers_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722120","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19817709"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/salisbury-historic-district-boundary-increase-ii-89000760/"}