{"nrhp_refnum":"95001398","name":"Harrellsville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, E. and W. Main St., Quebec St. and Tar Landing Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrellsville","county":"Hertford County","state":"NC","lat":36.30158568950006,"lon":-76.79105321367604,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small rural village historic district in Harrellsville, Hertford County, North Carolina, centered on Main, Quebec and Tar Landing streets. It contains 85 contributing and 25 noncontributing resources, mostly built between 1870 and 1940.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Harrellsville as a surviving agricultural crossroads village whose buildings span from an 1811 Federal-period house to early twentieth-century frame stores and Craftsman bungalows. Its frame commercial buildings survive with original exterior and interior features, which the form calls extraordinary. The village grew from Bethel's Crossroads, with Abner Harrell's farm and store as an early focus.","narrative":"Harrellsville is a small farming village in southeastern Hertford County, North Carolina, near the Chowan and Wiccacon rivers. The historic district follows Main, Quebec and Tar Landing streets and includes 85 contributing resources: houses with their outbuildings, frame stores, churches, a cemetery and farmland. Most significant buildings date from 1870 to 1940, though the Abner Harrell House, a two-story Federal-period frame dwelling, dates from about 1811 and anchors the oldest group of buildings. The village grew from Bethel's Crossroads, where planter George Bond, then John Wilson and Abner Harrell, established a farm and store at the meeting of major roads. Fires in 1864, 1888 and 1913 destroyed many earlier buildings, and replacements shaped the present village. Architectural styles range from Federal-Greek Revival to Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Craftsman. Frame commercial buildings along Main and Quebec streets survive largely intact, which is unusual because brick replaced frame in most towns by the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Queen Anne; Bungalow/Craftsman; also Colonial Revival, transitional Federal-Greek Revival and I-house","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Abner Harrell House is stated to be presently vacant; the rest of the district retains residential, commercial and religious uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.441055-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7208/47720887/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95001398.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720887","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrellsville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462198"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hertford-county/harrellsville-historic-district-95001398/"}