{"nrhp_refnum":"91001960","name":"Washington Park Historc District","other_names":["See Also:Lowe, Cicero Francis, House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Leonard St., Acadia Ave., Sunnyside Ave., Vintage Ave., Broad St., Bond St. and Washington Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winston-Salem","county":"Forsyth County","state":"NC","lat":36.07388851800005,"lon":-80.24363502912067,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-01-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned residential historic district of about twenty-five blocks on a ridge south of Salem Creek in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, laid out as a speculative streetcar suburb around a park dedicated in 1892. The district holds 475 resources, mostly houses built largely in the 1910s and 1920s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its role in the growth of Winston-Salem from the 1890s to World War II as an early streetcar suburb that housed prominent business and civic leaders. It also argues the district is significant as a planned suburb with well-preserved examples of pre-World War II architectural styles, including Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival houses, and that it retains its original layout and much of its historic building stock.","narrative":"Washington Park is a planned residential neighborhood of about twenty-five blocks on a ridge overlooking Salem Creek, south of the central business district of Winston-Salem. Jacob Lott Ludlow drew its plat in 1891, and the streets were recorded in March 1892, with a park of about seventy-five acres at its core. Developed largely between the 1890s and World War II, the neighborhood was served by a streetcar line on Main Street and Cascade Avenue that began running in 1890. Its houses include Victorian, Queen Anne, Shingle, Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Moravian Revival and Tudor Revival examples, with most of the houses built in the 1910s and 1920s. The large houses of prosperous businessmen on the first three blocks of Cascade Avenue anchor the district. Its stone walls and steps, tree-lined streets and original alley system remain largely intact, and the neighborhood is regarded as a representative example of an early twentieth-century streetcar suburb in North Carolina.","period_of_significance":"1891-1941","architect_builder":"Jacob Lott Ludlow (planner); Fogle Brothers Company (builders); Willard C. Northup (architect); Luther S. Lashmit (architect)","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Victorian, Classical Revival, Shingle, Moravian Revival, Tudor Revival","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 17:11:41.564125-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7202/47720248/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001960.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720248","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_Historic_District_(Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016321"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/forsyth-county/washington-park-historc-district-91001960/"}