{"nrhp_refnum":"92000182","name":"Carthage Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, McReynolds St. between Barrett St. and Glendons Rd. and parts of Barrett, Ray, Pinecrest and Brooklyn Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carthage","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.35083607900003,"lon":-79.42265947677936,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-03-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A predominantly residential historic district in the small town of Carthage, county seat of Moore County, North Carolina, extending west from the courthouse square along McReynolds Street. Its buildings date mainly from about 1850 to the beginning of World War II.","why_significant":"The district is argued to contain the town's largest and most intact concentration of buildings reflecting its growth from the second quarter of the nineteenth century to World War II. It includes representative examples of many architectural styles of that period, along with the 1898-1900 Carthage Methodist Church, an adjacent cemetery with burials from the early 1850s, and a late 1930s community building. Carthage's prosperity came from its role as county seat and from the Tyson and Jones carriage company.","narrative":"Carthage, the county seat of Moore County in the Sandhills, holds a residential neighborhood that runs west from the courthouse square along McReynolds Street, once part of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road. Most of its buildings were erected between about 1850 and the start of World War II, and they show a range of styles from Greek Revival and Italianate to Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Craftsman. The district includes the 1898-1900 Carthage Methodist Church, its adjacent cemetery with burials from the early 1850s, and a 1939-40 community building built by the National Youth Administration. Carthage grew on the strength of its role as county seat and on the Tyson and Jones carriage works, which employed skilled workers from the mid 1850s into the twentieth century. The district is regarded as the town's largest and most intact collection of buildings from that growth period, and it is listed for its architecture and its community development.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Victorian Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Neo-Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most primary buildings are in good condition and largely owner-occupied; two houses appear abandoned and several are unoccupied for much of the year.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.359175-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7214/47721462/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000182.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000182/e06b6bbf6e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000182/e06b6bbf6e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CARTHAGE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_MOORE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:CARTHAGE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_MOORE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721462","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage_Historic_District_(Carthage,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460879"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/carthage-historic-district-92000182/"}