{"nrhp_refnum":"93000768","name":"Summit Avenue Historic District","other_names":["Charles B. Aycock Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Chestnut, E. Bessemer, Cypress, Dewey, Park, and Percy Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.08327176500006,"lon":-79.78147552692795,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district less than a mile northeast of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, centered on Summit Avenue. It contains 269 resources, mostly houses built between about 1895 and the 1930s, plus one school.","why_significant":"The district preserves an intact middle- and upper-class neighborhood of houses from the late 1890s through the Depression. It includes many of Greensboro's finest Queen Anne and Queen Anne/Colonial Revival dwellings, along with Craftsman foursquares and bungalows. It sits between downtown commerce and the Cone and Sternberger textile mills, whose wealth shaped its architecture.","narrative":"Summit Avenue Historic District is a residential neighborhood less than a mile northeast of downtown Greensboro. Summit Avenue was opened in 1898 to promote development and to link downtown with the Cone and Sternberger textile mills, and a streetcar line followed in 1902. Most of the 269 resources are houses built between about 1895 and the 1930s, and 227 of them contribute to the district's character. Large frame Queen Anne and transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival dwellings from 1895 to 1910 are joined by Craftsman foursquares and bungalows from the following two decades. A few Tudor Revival cottages, Shingle, Neoclassical Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque houses, and an Italian Renaissance Revival villa designed by Harry Barton add variety. The only historically non-residential building is the Colonial Revival Charles B. Aycock School of 1922. Early residents included merchants, clerks, managers and mill executives. Modern offices and apartments along Summit Avenue and Chestnut Street make up the non-contributing resources.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Harry Barton (Sternberger House); Starrett and Van Vleck (Charles B. Aycock School); William P. Rose (architect/contractor, 517 Fifth Avenue)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Queen Anne/Colonial Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Foursquare, Neoclassical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"227 of 269 resources are contributing; the 42 non-contributing ones are mostly modern apartment houses and offices. The houses remain largely intact and in residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.887924-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7179/47717939/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000768.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000768/5a72e054a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000768/5a72e054a1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Exwhysee (talk) (Uploads)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aycock_Neighborhood_Greensboro.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Exwhysee (talk) (Uploads)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aycock_Neighborhood_Greensboro.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717939","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20713473"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/summit-avenue-historic-district-93000768/"}