{"nrhp_refnum":"94000083","name":"Elizabeth City State Teachers College Historic District","other_names":["State Colored Normal School at Elizabeth City","Elizabeth City"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Parkview and Hollowell Drives","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elizabeth City","county":"Pasquotank County","state":"NC","lat":36.284527524000055,"lon":-76.21260174299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-02-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","Education"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly nineteen-acre historic college campus district on Parkview and Hollowell drives in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, with buildings dating from 1910 through the 1940s, centered on a large quadrangle of Colonial Revival brick buildings.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its role in educating Black teachers in eastern North Carolina, as the State Colored Normal School founded in 1891 and later a teachers college. It is also significant for its cohesive Colonial Revival campus architecture and as part of the city's Black heritage. The Practice School is an early Rosenwald Fund-financed school building.","narrative":"Elizabeth City State Teachers College Historic District covers about nineteen acres of the Elizabeth City State University campus. It grew from the State Colored Normal School, created by the state in 1891 to train teachers for Black public schools in eastern North Carolina. The campus moved south of town in 1910-1912, when Lane and Symera halls were built. Later building campaigns in the 1920s and in 1937-1939, the latter largely funded by the Public Works Administration, added Moore, Bias, Butler and other buildings around a grassy quadrangle. Most are large brick Colonial Revival structures with slate roofs, symmetrical plans, and stone and wood classical detailing. A frame Craftsman-style Practice School, built in 1921 with Rosenwald Fund support, and a Principal's House complete the group. The district, with six contributing and five noncontributing buildings plus the quadrangle, was listed for its educational importance, its place in the city's Black heritage, and its architectural unity. Its period of significance runs from 1921 to 1943.","period_of_significance":"1921-1943","architect_builder":"Stephens and Stephens of New Bern (later additions and plans)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a college campus; Butler Hall is vacant awaiting renovation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.539475-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7183/47718315/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94000083.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718315","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_City_State_Teachers_College_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19872960"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pasquotank-county/elizabeth-city-state-teachers-college-historic-district-94000083/"}