{"nrhp_refnum":"89001039","name":"Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Rocky Ridge Rd., Country Club Rd., Laurel Hill Rd., Laurel Hill Cir., and Buttons Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chapel Hill","county":"Orange County","state":"NC","lat":35.90704107800005,"lon":-79.03834997674775,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of thirty-four contributing buildings, garages, stone walls and gardens on a ridge adjacent to the eastern boundary of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. The houses were built in two periods, 1928-30 and 1936-40.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is the best and only example in Chapel Hill of early twentieth-century planned suburbanization, and that it combines architect-designed houses, campus and golf-course siting, and landscape amenities under the control of its original owner, William Chambers Coker. Its curvilinear roads, designed by T. Felix Hickerson, and its stone walls are presented as significant examples of landscape design.","narrative":"Built in two phases, in 1928-30 and 1936-40, on a ridge beside the eastern edge of the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, this residential district comprises thirty-four contributing houses, garages, stone terraces, specimen gardens and a network of road-defining stone walls. Most houses are Colonial Revival in style, with a few English Manor or Cotswold examples from the first period. Original owner William Chambers Coker, a university botanist, controlled the layout and building through restrictive deeds that set the number of structures per lot and minimum building costs. The curvilinear streets were laid out by professor T. Felix Hickerson, whose road-design work influenced national practice. Local black stone masons built the walls, which line the principal roads. The district is regarded as a local example of the planned suburb movement and as a record of the work of Coker, Hickerson and the architects who designed its houses.","period_of_significance":"1927-1940","architect_builder":"George Watts Carr (architect); William Sprinkle (architect); Brodie Thompson (contractor); Hackney and Knott (architects); Eugene Stroud (architect); Bradford Eddy (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; English Manor/Cotswold eclectic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.585422-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7216/47721674/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89001039.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001039/0a71781e09-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001039/0a71781e09-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROCKY_RIDGE_FARM_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_CHAPEL_HILL,_ORANGE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:ROCKY_RIDGE_FARM_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_CHAPEL_HILL,_ORANGE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001501","name":"Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/rocky-ridge-farm-historic-district-boundary-increase-07001501/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721674","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Ridge_Farm_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016131"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/orange-county/rocky-ridge-farm-historic-district-89001039/"}