{"nrhp_refnum":"92000178","name":"Lyndon Street Townhouses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"195--201 Lyndon St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07126643000004,"lon":-79.78510580299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of four attached two-story brick rowhouses at 195-201 Lyndon Street in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, built about 1905 by an unknown builder, probably for the Lash family who owned the lot at that time.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is Greensboro's only surviving early townhouse row and one of few early townhouse blocks in North Carolina. Its eclectic Colonial Revival and Queen Anne design reflects popular local styles. It also has an unusual social history: in the 1920s a Black entrepreneur owned it while white tenants lived there.","narrative":"Four attached two-story brick rowhouses at 195-201 Lyndon Street in Greensboro were built about 1905 and share a pressed-brick front facade and a full-length porch. The porch has a shed roof on seven Doric columns, while the second floor has polygonal bays and metal-clad gabled parapets in the Queen Anne manner. Side and rear walls are plainer common brick, and the building was later divided into eight apartments. The row is listed as Greensboro's only surviving early townhouses, a form that was rare in North Carolina at the time. The first tenants included a shoe company president and an attorney, but the row soon housed skilled laborers and clerks, partly because of its position beside the Southern Railway tracks. From 1919, Daniel C. Suggs, a Black teacher and entrepreneur, owned the block, and its tenants stayed white until 1928. He lost it to foreclosure in 1929, and Black tenants have lived there since.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1905","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as multiple dwellings; the building was later divided into eight apartments and has been rented to low-income African-American tenants since 1929.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.148688-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7179/47717931/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000178/0b5f943bfc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000178/0b5f943bfc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyndon_Street_Townhouses_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.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:Lyndon_Street_Townhouses_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717931","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Street_Townhouses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19986880"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/lyndon-street-townhouses-92000178/"}