{"nrhp_refnum":"94001020","name":"Green Park Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Green Park Inn"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of US 321 and Green Hill and Rock Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blowing Rock","county":"Watauga County","state":"NC","lat":36.11986367150007,"lon":-81.66001469316585,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential summer resort district on a mountain ridge in Blowing Rock, Watauga County, North Carolina, centered on the 1891 Green Park Inn and the Blowing Rock Country Club Golf Course, with stone-and-bark summer cottages built mostly in the 1920s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is one of a small number of turn-of-the-century western North Carolina resorts that have survived largely intact, and that its summer cottages, hotel, and landscape reflect the lifeways of upper class North Carolina society from 1891 to 1944. Its 1920s Craftsman/bungalow cottages, with chestnut bark siding and stone foundations, are said to give the district its essential architectural character. The Green Park Inn is described as the state's second oldest surviving resort hotel.","narrative":"Green Park sits on a mountain ridge in Blowing Rock, Watauga County, where a resort community grew up around the Green Park Hotel, built in 1891. The hotel, described as the state's second oldest surviving resort hotel, anchors a district of roughly two dozen summer cottages, most dating from the 1920s, along with the Blowing Rock Country Club golf course and the Mt. Bethel Reformed Church and Cemetery. Many cottages are sheathed in chestnut bark and set on stone foundations, with stone retaining walls, steps, and terraces fitted to the steep slopes. Summer residents included textile and insurance figures from across the state, and the district's social history is tied to the families who built and returned to these houses over generations. The resort is also linked to the Blowing Rock itself, a cliff overlooking the Johns River Gorge. The district is valued for its intact early twentieth-century resort character and for its landscape and craftsmanship typical of western North Carolina summer colonies.","period_of_significance":"1891-1944","architect_builder":"Barnes & Champney (architect); Hayes, J. Lee (builder); Hunter, L. L. (architect/builder); Moody, Charles (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Late Gothic 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 17:11:42.053314-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7227/47722798/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94001020.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001020/d15c4f6003-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001020/d15c4f6003-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Epiphany_-_Built_1948.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Epiphany_-_Built_1948.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722798","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18151068"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/watauga-county/green-park-historic-district-94001020/"}