{"nrhp_refnum":"89001765","name":"Queen-Gordon Streets Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly N. Queen and Gordon Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kinston","county":"Lenoir County","state":"NC","lat":35.26206551300004,"lon":-77.58080304978445,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about seven acres in the central business section of Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina, centred on the intersection of North Queen and Gordon streets. It contains twenty-three buildings, twenty of them contributing, mostly commercial with two institutional buildings.","why_significant":"The district is regarded as the most concentrated collection of relatively intact late 19th and early 20th century commercial and institutional buildings in Kinston. Its buildings reflect the city's growth from 1890 to 1939 as a commercial and tobacco-market centre in eastern North Carolina, and include a federal post office and a major church built in popular period styles.","narrative":"Kinston's central commercial core, centred on the intersection of North Queen and Gordon streets, forms this district of twenty-three buildings on about seven acres. Most were erected after a fire in February 1895 destroyed two blocks of the business district, and many date from the first decades of the 20th century. The district includes three bank buildings at the intersection, among them a six-story Renaissance Revival bank of 1924 designed by Benton and Benton of Wilson. Its anchors are the Gordon Street Christian Church, a tan-brick Romanesque Revival building of 1912-1915, and a limestone Neo-Classical Revival federal post office built in 1915. The buildings are listed for their architecture and for their representation of the city's commercial growth. The district holds the largest group of relatively intact buildings of this kind in the central business district, though many shopfronts have been changed and some facades covered.","period_of_significance":"1895-1939","architect_builder":"Benton & Benton (architects, Wilson); Robert L. Blalock (builder/contractor); Oscar Wenderoth (Treasury Department supervising architect, federal post office)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival, Beaux Arts, Classical Revival, Neo-Classical Revival, Renaissance Revival, Italianate, Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Building condition ranges from fair to good; about half of the contributing buildings have been altered, mainly through shopfront remodeling; several facades are covered with metal screens or veneer.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.719509-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7181/47718153/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89001765.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001765/98467c0621-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001765/98467c0621-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen-Gordon_Streets_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</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:Queen-Gordon_Streets_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94000569","name":"Kinston Commercial Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/kinston-commercial-historic-district-additional-documentation-94000569/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718153","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%E2%80%93Gordon_Streets_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987704"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/lenoir-county/queen-gordon-streets-historic-district-89001765/"}