{"nrhp_refnum":"90000439","name":"Mill Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Bluff, College, Court, W. Railroad, Wantland, Mill, and First","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jacksonville","county":"Onslow County","state":"NC","lat":34.74898675950004,"lon":-77.43359840715179,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about eighteen acres in the residential Mill Avenue neighborhood of Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, on the south bank of the New River. It contains fifty-nine buildings, structures and sites, mostly late nineteenth and early twentieth century houses.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be the largest and least-altered concentration of historic buildings in Jacksonville, a railroad and lumber town. It is linked to the lumber boom that followed the 1890 arrival of the Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina Railroad, to the local physician and developer Dr. Richard Ward, and to its collection of Late Victorian and Bungalow style frame houses and the brick depot.","narrative":"Laid out circa 1890 on land Richard Ward sold to the Onslow Land and Improvement Company, the Mill Avenue neighborhood lies beside the tracks of the Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina Railroad in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its roughly fifty-nine buildings and sites are mostly frame houses, including single-pile center-hall cottages from the early 1890s, larger side-hall houses built after 1901, and bungalows from the 1920s. The district is significant for its ties to the railroad and lumber boom of the 1890s, when a mill operated on the New River nearby. It also reflects Richard Ward, a physician, businessman and developer who lived there in a Late Victorian house. The Jarman Hotel, a rambling frame railroad hotel of about 1890, and the brick Jacksonville Depot give the neighborhood its transportation character. The period of significance ends in 1941, when Camp Lejeune transformed the town.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1890-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Bungalow/Craftsman; I house","criteria":["A","B","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 17:11:41.987311-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7182/47718295/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000439.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718295","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987099"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/onslow-county/mill-avenue-historic-district-90000439/"}