{"nrhp_refnum":"94001050","name":"Irving Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Buffalo Cr., Battleground Ave., Cornwallis Dr. and W. Northwood St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.09642787100006,"lon":-79.79766736099158,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Irving Park Historic District is a planned early twentieth-century residential park suburb in northwest Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, centred on the Greensboro Country Club. It comprises 270 resources, 173 of them contributing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is Greensboro's best example of a planned picturesque suburb, shaped by curvilinear streets, deep setbacks, parks and landscape design by John Nolen and Robert B. Cridland. It also holds many architect-designed houses in revival and eclectic styles from the 1911-1941 period, and it is associated with community planning and development in Greensboro.","narrative":"Irving Park is a residential neighborhood in northwest Greensboro, developed from 1911 around the Greensboro Country Club, which bought 58.52 acres from Alfred M. Scales that year. Its streets follow curving, tree-lined alignments set out by civil engineer W. B. Trogdon, then expanded by John Nolen in the mid-1910s and revised by Robert B. Cridland around 1920. Deed covenants required houses costing at least $5,000, set back fifty feet from the street, and built on lots at least one hundred feet wide. The district includes three small parks, a golf course by Donald Ross, and the 1921 Elm Street Bridge. Many houses were designed by local and out-of-state architects, including A. Raymond Ellis and Charles Barton Keen, and the most common style is Colonial Revival. The district is significant for its community planning and for its architecture and landscape design, and it holds a high degree of historic integrity.","period_of_significance":"1911-1941","architect_builder":"Nolen, John; Cridland, Robert B.","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Craftsman/Prairie, Chateauesque, French Eclectic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district looks substantially as it did at the end of its period of significance, with most post-1940s building outside its boundaries.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.657493-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7179/47717949/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94001050.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001050/1308234625-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001050/1308234625-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"Nyttend, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meadowbrook_and_Sunset_in_Irving_Park.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717949","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462502"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/irving-park-historic-district-94001050/"}