{"nrhp_refnum":"90000819","name":"Salisbury Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Salisbury St. from Kelly St. to Lexington Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mocksville","county":"Davie County","state":"NC","lat":35.88977536400006,"lon":-80.56477903296874,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of several blocks along both sides of tree-lined Salisbury Street south of Lexington Road in Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina. It contains mostly houses dating from the late 1820s to World War II, with a few outbuildings and some post-war infill.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under Criterion A for its role in Mocksville's neighborhood development from the 1820s through the first five decades of the twentieth century, and as one of the town's two primary residential areas in the nineteenth century. It is also significant under Criterion C for its collection of Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Classical Revival and Craftsman style houses, including the brick former Mocksville Academy.","narrative":"Salisbury Street runs southwest from downtown Mocksville and holds a row of houses built mostly between the late 1820s and World War II. The early village road was the Salisbury Road, and the street grew as a semi-suburban residential area after Davie County's seat was laid out in 1839 to the northeast. The brick former Mocksville Academy, chartered in 1827 with its lot acquired in 1828, is a Federal style building that served as a school for nearly half a century. The Howell-Brown-Sanford House, begun about 1850 for merchant Stephen Lewis Howell, shows Greek Revival form with a double-tiered porch added about 1870. Charles F. Meroney's Queen Anne house, built about 1895 by James and Samuel Call, is one of the largest in the district. Craftsman bungalows from the 1920s and 1930s, including the Hugh A. Sanford House of 1921, complete the sequence. The district is noted for its tree cover of large white oaks, magnolias and cedars.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1828-1940","architect_builder":"Call, James and Samuel, builders","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Craftsman","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 17:11:42.609119-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/7200/47720001/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90000819.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18353727"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davie-county/salisbury-street-historic-district-90000819/"}