{"nrhp_refnum":"90002197","name":"Oakwood Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"100--300 blocks Oakwood St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"High Point","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.95629403000004,"lon":-80.01313036247984,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-02-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district of about twelve acres along the 100-300 blocks of Oakwood Street in High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina, three blocks west of the central business district. It holds 28 contributing and 8 noncontributing buildings, mostly houses built between 1902 and about 1939.","why_significant":"The district preserves rare surviving urban residential buildings from 1902-1915, including High Point's only remaining collection of Queen Anne style houses in the 300 block, and the last group of residences built in the downtown area (the 100 block, 1921-1927). It retains its character, feeling and association with prosperous early twentieth-century middle-class neighborhoods. It also includes fine Colonial Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman examples and 1930s apartments.","narrative":"Oakwood Historic District is a compact, three-block residential corridor of about twelve acres in High Point, North Carolina, just west of downtown and beside the railroad tracks. Its 28 contributing buildings, mostly houses and a few 1930s brick apartment buildings, date from 1902 to about 1939. The 300 block, the oldest, holds the city's only surviving collection of Queen Anne houses, including five nearly identical examples built as speculative ventures by developer Benjamin A. Best. The 200 block has brick triple-A houses, and the 100 block, also called Oakwood Court, has a broad grassy median with Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Bungalow houses, including one faced in North Carolina quartzite. It was among the last groups of homes built in the downtown area. The district retains even setbacks, mature plantings and little infill. Many buildings need rehabilitation, commercial development surrounds the area, and five houses have been lost in thirty years, which has raised concern about its future.","period_of_significance":"1902-1940 (boundary text cites development 1902-1940; narrative references 1936-1939 for apartments)","architect_builder":"Developer Benjamin A. Best (speculative Queen Anne houses); Norman L. Garner (builder of 211 Oakwood); Roy B. Johnson (builder of a 1939 duplex)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still largely residential; many buildings need rehabilitation, and the surrounding area is largely commercial. Five houses have been lost over thirty years. One house, the Clark House, is described as empty.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.040524-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7206/47720600/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90002197.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002197/09e0362780-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002197/09e0362780-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"Nyttend, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakwood_north_of_Newton,_High_Point.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720600","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakwood_Historic_District_(High_Point,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987361"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/oakwood-historic-district-90002197/"}