{"nrhp_refnum":"92000359","name":"Forney, Edward J., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1402 Spring Garden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.06559648600006,"lon":-79.81306391699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story frame Queen Anne style house built about 1892 at 1402 Spring Garden Street in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro campus. It was built by Edward J. Forney, an original faculty member of the college.","why_significant":"It is among the best surviving Queen Anne houses in Greensboro and shows early twentieth-century Colonial Revival updating. With the Foust Building it is the oldest surviving building tied to the college, and the earliest known surviving faculty residence. Forney founded and led the Commercial Department for forty-eight years and pioneered women's business education in North Carolina.","narrative":"Built around 1892 on Spring Garden Street in Greensboro, this two-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame house is one of the best surviving Queen Anne dwellings in the city. A large polygonal corner tower, shingled gables, a varied roofline and decorative metal roof shingles mark the style, and the porch was later given Doric columns in the Colonial Revival manner. Inside, molded door and window surrounds with foliate cornerblocks, crown moldings and a fluted mantel survive. Edward J. Forney built the house after joining the original faculty of the State Normal and Industrial School, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He founded its Commercial Department, led it until 1940, and trained about 4,000 women for secretarial and clerical work that had mostly been held by men. The house is the oldest known surviving faculty residence tied to the school. After the Forneys sold it in 1946 it was divided into apartments, though much original fabric remains.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1892 to 1941","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Divided into three apartments after 1946 and leased as apartments by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, which acquired it in 1988; exterior and most interior fabric remain intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.645824-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/7179/47717955/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92000359.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000359/597ceddfd5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000359/597ceddfd5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admissions_Office_and_Visitor_Welcome_Center,_UNC-Greensboro.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:Admissions_Office_and_Visitor_Welcome_Center,_UNC-Greensboro.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717955","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Forney_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461798"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/forney-edward-j-house-92000359/"}