{"nrhp_refnum":"97001612","name":"Pee Dee Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Along Pee Dee Ave., roughly from Arey Ave. to Miller St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albemarle","county":"Stanly County","state":"NC","lat":35.354242731000056,"lon":-80.18484195744566,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-01-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district made up of the whole length of Pee Dee Avenue in east central Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, with 79 contributing and 27 noncontributing resources built from about 1891 to 1947, plus a cemetery and a church.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be the city's most distinguished residential avenue, showing nearly six decades of gradual growth rather than a planned development. It holds an outstanding collection of Queen Anne, Bungalow, Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival houses, and brick Period Cottages, many built by contractor David Augustus Holbrook. The buildings retain a high degree of integrity because most stayed single-family and owner-occupied.","narrative":"Pee Dee Avenue runs about nine blocks through east central Albemarle, the Stanly County seat, and the whole length of the street forms a residential historic district. Houses were added gradually from about 1891 to 1947, so lot sizes and styles vary. The earliest survivors are large two-story Queen Anne frame houses. They are joined by Bungalows and, from the 1920s and early 1930s, many brick Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival houses and one-story Period Cottages with decorative brickwork and red terra cotta tile roofs. Contractor David Augustus Holbrook built many of the cottages, including his own home. Other resources include Christ Church, a Late Gothic stone church of 1939-1940, and Albemarle Cemetery. Most houses have stayed single-family and owner-occupied, which has kept the buildings well maintained and largely intact. The district is considered locally significant as the city's most distinguished residential avenue.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1891-1947","architect_builder":"David Augustus Holbrook (contractor); Louis Asbury (architect, 1929 remodeling); Louis Humbert Ashley (architect)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most houses are well maintained and owner-occupied; one house (#54) was vacant in 1997 and was being restored by a new owner; two lots are vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.488414-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/7222/47722258/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97001612.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001612/a088ee68c8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001612/a088ee68c8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PEE_DEE_AVENUE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_STANLY_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:PEE_DEE_AVENUE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_STANLY_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722258","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Dee_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19946141"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/stanly-county/pee-dee-avenue-historic-district-97001612/"}