{"nrhp_refnum":"95000210","name":"Apex Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Apex Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Chatham, S. Hughes, S. Mason and E. Moore Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Apex","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.72885481000006,"lon":-78.84953089683148,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Apex Historic District in Apex, Wake County, North Carolina, covering a compact three-block area east of the CSX railroad tracks with 27 houses and one church. The area was subdivided from farmland by the Apex Land and Improvement Company in 1906.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the area completes the eligible boundaries of the Apex Historic District by adding stylish early twentieth-century houses, many in Queen Anne and Neoclassical Revival styles, built by leading Apex bankers, merchants and professionals. It also includes the ca. 1870 Thompson-Wrenn House, described as the most stylish early house in Apex, and the 1917 Apex United Methodist Church. Most of the houses are said to retain architectural integrity and to form a cohesive middle-class neighborhood.","narrative":"Frame houses and a church on a compact grid of streets east of the railroad tracks in Apex, Wake County, form this boundary increase to the Apex Historic District. The Apex Land and Improvement Company platted the land in 1906, and over the next decade families built Queen Anne and Neoclassical Revival houses with pyramidal roofs, bay windows, dormers and wraparound porches. Prominent figures included banker J. R. Cunningham, whose 1906 house on S. Hughes Street is described as the first of the newer type of residential architecture in town, and merchant J. W. Lassiter, whose Queen Anne cottage has a corner turret. The oldest building is the ca. 1870 Italianate Thompson-Wrenn House at 203 E. Chatham Street. The 1917 Gothic Revival Apex United Methodist Church stands on the block beside the tracks. The area was included because it holds the densest concentration of historic buildings in this part of town, and it is said to show the town's early twentieth-century prosperity.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1870-1944","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Neoclassical Revival; Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most of the contributing buildings are described as retaining integrity; the Apex United Methodist Church sanctuary was altered and resided in vinyl in the early 1990s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.914797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7186/47718661/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95000210.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000210/f2c8a74db4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000210/f2c8a74db4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Seth Ilys at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SI-ApexNCDowntown.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Ilys at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SI-ApexNCDowntown.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94000185","name":"Apex Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/apex-historic-district-94000185/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718661","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4779425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/apex-historic-district-boundary-increase-95000210/"}