{"nrhp_refnum":"92001628","name":"Pinehurst Race Track","other_names":["Pinehurst Training Track"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Morgantown Rd. and NC 5, SE corner","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pinehurst","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.18206560950006,"lon":-79.46604195849076,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of about fifty acres in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina, made up of two oval race tracks, barns, paddocks, shops and an exhibition building, developed from the 1910s by Leonard Tufts, proprietor of the Village of Pinehurst.","why_significant":"The complex is described as the oldest surviving and continuously used race track facility in North Carolina and as an important winter training ground for Standardbred and Thoroughbred horses. It helped popularize equestrian sports in the state. The Amphidrome is thought to be the first grand agricultural exhibition building erected in North Carolina.","narrative":"Pinehurst Race Track is a horse training and racing complex of about fifty acres on the edge of the Village of Pinehurst in Moore County. Two oval sand tracks, laid out by 1915, form its core: an inner half-mile track for trotters and pacers and an outer five-eighths-mile track for Thoroughbreds. Around them stand timber barns from the 1910s, paddocks, a farrier shop, a clubhouse, a harness shop and the Amphidrome, a stuccoed Mission-style exhibition building from about 1917. A tornado around 1937 removed two of its four corner towers and its tile roof. Leonard Tufts, who ran the resort village, developed the complex, which hosted horse racing, livestock shows and exhibitions. It is described as the oldest continuously used race track in North Carolina and became a winter training ground for young harness horses. Nineteen resources date from before 1942; fourteen later ones are non-contributing. The Village of Pinehurst purchased the site in 1992 to preserve it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Leonard Tufts (developer of the track complex); Frank Schmelzer (built the 1930 Harness Shop)","architectural_style":"Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival; Agricultural/Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a horse training facility; the Amphidrome stables Standardbred horses in winter. The 1930 Harness Shop is vacant. The Village of Pinehurst bought the 111-acre tract in January 1992.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.057297-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7214/47721466/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92001628.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001628/d70c4179e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001628/d70c4179e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PINEHURST_RACE_TRACK,_MOORE_COUNTY,_NC.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:PINEHURST_RACE_TRACK,_MOORE_COUNTY,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721466","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinehurst_Race_Track","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987577"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/pinehurst-race-track-92001628/"}