{"nrhp_refnum":"92000176","name":"White Oak New Town Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2400--2418 N. Church, 2312--2509 Spruce, 2310--2503 Hubbard and 2401--2503 Cypress Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.10676669450007,"lon":-79.7787544503862,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mill village district of one hundred stuccoed hollow-tile houses and sixty-four car sheds in northeast Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, built about 1920 by the Proximity Manufacturing Company of the Cone family to house workers at the nearby White Oak textile mill.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be the most intact of the many mill villages in northeast Greensboro, with its houses, car sheds and lots still in their original relationships. It is presented as reflecting daily life of textile workers in the 1920s and 1930s and the role of the textile industry in shaping Greensboro's landscape. Its bungalow-form houses are described as better than contemporary mill housing.","narrative":"Built about 1920 by the Proximity Manufacturing Company, a Cone family firm, this mill village in northeast Greensboro contains one hundred hollow-tile houses finished in stucco and sixty-four car sheds set along parallel alleys. Eighty one-story gable-front bungalows and twenty two-story gable-end houses stand on a regular grid of streets near the White Oak Mill, about half a mile away. Each house had about four or six rooms and was rented cheaply, at roughly $1.00 to $1.25 a week in the 1920s. Residents worked in the mill as speeder operators, dolphers, card holders, weavers and loom fixers. The village is regarded as the most intact example of such housing in the city, and it documents the everyday lives of textile workers and the company's paternalistic provision of schools, gardens and housing during the 1920s and 1930s.","period_of_significance":"1920-1941","architect_builder":"Proximity Manufacturing Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"All of the one hundred houses and sixty-four car sheds are described as surviving; three frame classroom buildings are no longer extant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.767423-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7179/47717947/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000176.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000176/a0b4561d32-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000176/a0b4561d32-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Oak_New_Town_Historic_District_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhpotter</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Oak_New_Town_Historic_District_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717947","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Oak_New_Town_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016339"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/white-oak-new-town-historic-district-92000176/"}