{"nrhp_refnum":"93001191","name":"College Hill Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Bumpass-Troy House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. Market St., S. Cedar St., Oakland Ave. and McIver St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.06977865500005,"lon":-79.80318109287424,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-11-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic residential district adjoining downtown Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, west of the intersection of Elm and Market streets, containing primarily frame single-family houses along an irregular grid of streets. It developed mainly from the 1890s through the 1930s around the Greensboro Female College and the state women's college.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is among Greensboro's most important and intact late nineteenth and early twentieth century neighborhoods, with development driven by the 1891 annexation, corporate real estate activity, the two colleges, and the electric streetcar. It states the district has a large group of Queen Anne and transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival houses unmatched in the city, and that its bungalows and Craftsman and Colonial Revival foursquares are also noteworthy.","narrative":"College Hill is a residential district on a gentle rise just west of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Its streets hold roughly 387 resources, most of them frame houses set close together on narrow urban lots with shallow lawns and mature shade trees. Development began around the Greensboro Female College, which opened on land purchased in 1837, and accelerated after the 1891 extension of city limits and the 1892 opening of the state Normal and Industrial School for White Girls. The Walker-Scarborough House, dating from about 1845, is among the earliest surviving dwellings. The district holds one of the largest groups of Queen Anne and transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival houses in the city, built mostly in the 1890s and 1900s. Later bungalows and Craftsman and Colonial Revival foursquares followed in the 1910s and 1920s. Its growth tracks the arrival of the electric streetcar around 1902 and the paving of its streets.","period_of_significance":"1837-1941","architect_builder":"Epps, Orlo; Barton, Harry","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Craftsman; Bungalow; Foursquare; Tudor Revival; Greek Revival; Italianate; Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.214937-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/7179/47717941/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93001191.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001191/e4317b63da-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001191/e4317b63da-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_Hill_Greensboro.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_Hill_Greensboro.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717941","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Hill,_Greensboro,_North_Carolina","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5146419"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/college-hill-historic-district-93001191/"}