{"nrhp_refnum":"97001304","name":"Carolina Power and Light Company Car Barn and Automobile Garage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"116 N. West St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.78253990300004,"lon":-78.64534825099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick car barn and automobile garage in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, built in 1925 by the Carolina Power and Light Company to house its streetcars. It occupies the north quadrant of a block bounded by West Jones, North Harrington, North West and West Edenton streets.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is architecturally significant at the local level as a rare, largely intact example of an Art Deco-style transportation-related facility in Raleigh, where few buildings of that style were erected before 1947. It is also linked to the history of the city's electric streetcar system and the company's expansion in the 1920s.","narrative":"Built in 1925 by the Carolina Power and Light Company, this long one-story brick building on a sloping lot in Raleigh was designed to house streetcars, with a half-basement under its west end. Its exterior is organized by brick piers set about twenty feet apart, capped with concrete and terra cotta, between broad metal-mullioned window walls. The interior is an open industrial floor with exposed steel roof trusses. As private automobile ownership grew in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the company phased out its streetcar routes and the building was converted to store and service company vehicles. It is regarded as one of only three surviving Art Deco transportation facilities of the 1920s in Raleigh, and its streamlined design reflects the company's modern image and the growth of urban transit in the period. The building was used by the company until 1996 and is now vacant.","period_of_significance":"1925-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant; the building was used by Carolina Power and Light to store company vehicles until 1996 and plans for its adaptive use are underway.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.389166-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7226/47722619/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97001304.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001304/3645dff62b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001304/3645dff62b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CP%26L_Car_Barn_and_Automobile_Garage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Oren Rawlings</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CP%26L_Car_Barn_and_Automobile_Garage.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722619","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Power_and_Light_Company_Car_Barn_and_Automobile_Garage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20708424"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/carolina-power-and-light-company-car-barn-and-automobile-garage-97001304/"}