{"nrhp_refnum":"96000816","name":"Golden Belt Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Golden Belt Historic District"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1000--1004 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.98892253900004,"lon":-78.89077428099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick commercial block of three storefronts at the northwest corner of East Main and North Elm streets in Durham, North Carolina. It is a boundary increase to the Golden Belt Historic District.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building retains early twentieth-century commercial characteristics that echo the adjacent historic district. It is associated with the development of the East Main Street commercial corridor around 1901 onward, including the original location of McDonald's Drug Store. Its survival also preserved a corner that was otherwise slated for demolition in the early 1980s.","narrative":"Brick commercial block of three storefronts at the northwest corner of East Main and North Elm streets in Durham, built in the early twentieth century in the Commercial Style. Its units step down the sloping site toward the corner, divided by brick piers, with brick parapets, terra cotta copings and plate-glass display windows set over deep transoms. The interior has plaster walls, wooden floors and simple wooden details. The East Main Street commercial corridor began developing around 1901 and grew for three decades, housing groceries, drug stores, barber shops and billiard halls. The building's storefronts once held a shop, a beauty parlor and the original McDonald's Drug Store, which moved to the Ninth Street commercial district around 1940. When neighboring houses were cleared in the early 1980s, this commercial building was kept, and a 1987 neighborhood plan recommended its restoration as part of revitalizing the Main Street corridor.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The building is vacant and boarded up, and some of its glass windows have been vandalized.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.038789-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7177/47717703/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/96000816.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000816/ac86b467c2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000816/ac86b467c2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor_west_of_Elm,_Golden_Belt.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor_west_of_Elm,_Golden_Belt.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717703","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Belt_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462017"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/golden-belt-historic-district-boundary-increase-96000816/"}