{"nrhp_refnum":"90002152","name":"Pope Air Force Base Historic District","other_names":["Pope Air Force Base Depression-Era Contanment"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bldgs. 300, 302, 306, and Old Family Housing Units","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.170427422000074,"lon":-79.00346627420805,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 15.5-acre military historic district at Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville, North Carolina, made up of 32 contributing buildings built in 1933-1934: an administrative and barracks building, a fire station, a medical dispensary, family housing and garages.","why_significant":"The district marks the first, Depression-era military expansion at Pope Field and an early direct Federal effort to relieve unemployment under the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932. The buildings are also typical of 1930s military base construction that addressed a severe housing shortage, following Army planning standards from the late 1920s.","narrative":"Pope Air Force Base Historic District is a group of 32 buildings in Fayetteville, North Carolina, constructed in 1933 and 1934 as the first cantonment at Pope Field. It includes Fleming Hall, a three-story Georgian Revival barracks later used as Command Headquarters, a former fire station, a former medical dispensary, 21 officers' houses on Maynard, Etheridge and Virgin Streets, and associated garages. Walls are hollow tile masonry with painted stucco, set on concrete foundations; roofs were originally Spanish tile and are now mostly asphalt shingle. Funding came from the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, which supported public construction during the Great Depression. The nomination presents the district as a record of the earliest military expansion at the field and of pre-Roosevelt Federal job creation. It also reflects national military housing programs of the late 1920s, which aimed to replace temporary quarters with planned, park-like neighborhoods. One 1984 office building is the only noncontributing resource.","period_of_significance":"1933-1934","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian Revival (Fleming Hall and, to a lesser extent, the smaller administrative buildings); form lists \"No Style\"","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Buildings remain in military use: Fleming Hall serves as Command Headquarters, former family housing is still used as housing or offices, and most garages serve as vehicle or storage buildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.035506-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/7176/47717607/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90002152.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717607","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Air_Force_Base_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18217154"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/pope-air-force-base-historic-district-90002152/"}