{"nrhp_refnum":"99000199","name":"Maxton Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Graham St., Martin Luther King Dr., McCaskill St., and Florence St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Maxton","county":"Robeson County","state":"NC","lat":34.73763912300004,"lon":-79.34896914887165,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-02-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly twenty-one-acre, five-block historic core of the town of Maxton in western Robeson County, North Carolina, made up mainly of commercial buildings, railroad structures, churches and houses built between about 1884 and 1948.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion C for its architecture and for community development tied to two major railroad lines. It contains a notable collection of brick commercial buildings with cast-iron storefronts, railroad structures, churches and early twentieth-century houses in styles from Queen Anne to Neoclassical Revival.","narrative":"Maxton's historic district covers about twenty-one acres in the town's core, on the Scotland-Robeson county line. The town grew because of two railroad lines, and the district reflects that, with a 1913 Classical Revival brick depot, two frame freight warehouses and a village square beside the tracks. Most of the buildings date from about 1884 to 1948. Thirty-two commercial buildings, many with cast-iron storefronts and pressed-brick facades, line Patterson and McCaskill Streets. The 1911 Patterson Building, a Renaissance Revival flatiron with a clock tower, is the best-known landmark. Two 1906 churches, First Presbyterian in Gothic Revival style and St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal in rusticated concrete designed by Henry E. Bonitz, anchor the district. Houses along Graham, Florence and North Patterson Streets range from Queen Anne to Neoclassical Revival, including the 1905 McKinnon House. The district was recognized for its architecture and for its role in the community's development around the railroads, with a period of significance of circa 1884 to 1948.","period_of_significance":"circa 1884-1948","architect_builder":"Parrish, Clint (architect); Bonitz, Henry E. (architect)","architectural_style":"Commercial style, Neoclassical Revival, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Most properties are in fair to good condition, but a few stand vacant and deteriorated; some vacant lots have been turned into community parks.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.106293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7219/47721966/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000199.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000199/aae4c93ce3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000199/aae4c93ce3-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Indy beetle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maxton,_NC_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Indy beetle</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maxton,_NC_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721966","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxton_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061033"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/robeson-county/maxton-historic-district-99000199/"}