{"nrhp_refnum":"91001875","name":"Southern Pines Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Boyd,James,House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Saylor St., New Jersey Ave., Illinois Ave. and Massachusetts Ave. Ext.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southern Pines","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.17260840050005,"lon":-79.38908803846772,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 320 acres covering much of the original town of Southern Pines in Moore County, North Carolina, straddling the Seaboard Railway and containing residences, downtown commercial buildings, churches and outbuildings dating from 1883 to 1941.","why_significant":"The visible text covers only the physical description, not the Section 8 significance statement. It presents the district as a well-preserved collection of pre-World War II buildings, including architect-designed Colonial Revival and English/Norman Cottage houses, many by Aymar Embury II and Alfred Yeomans. The district also has a notable downtown, a New England-influenced stock of shingled cottages, and mature planted landscaping.","narrative":"Southern Pines Historic District covers roughly 320 acres of the original town in the Sandhills of Moore County, North Carolina. The Seaboard Railway runs through its center, with a downtown of frame and brick commercial buildings on both sides of the tracks. Street patterns combine an early square grid with curving roads in the Weymouth Heights subdivisions to the south. The district contains buildings from 1883 to 1941, including small Queen Anne cottages, many wood-shingled Craftsman bungalows, and a large group of Colonial Revival houses. Large English and Norman Cottage style houses, mostly by Aymar Embury II and Alfred Yeomans, cluster at the south end. Embury also designed downtown buildings, among them the Citizens Bank and Trust Building, the 1937 Post Office and the 1939 Library. Churches, garages and other outbuildings add to the fabric. The district counts 495 contributing and 183 noncontributing resources, set among pines, magnolias and hollies planted in the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Aymar Embury II; Alfred Yeomans; Louis Lachine (engineer, apparently designer); Benton and Benton of Wilson; Walter Flower","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Colonial Revival, English Cottage, Vernacular Commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Many early houses have been altered, but the district's buildings are described as well-preserved overall. Houses and commercial buildings remain in domestic, commercial, hotel and post office use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.155606-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/7214/47721446/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001875.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001875/2ec69ed146-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001875/2ec69ed146-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SOUTHERN_PINES_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_MOORE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721446","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pines_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20714010"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/southern-pines-historic-district-91001875/"}