{"nrhp_refnum":"99000317","name":"Carolina Heights Historic District","other_names":["Carolina Heights","Winoca Terrace"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Market St., Thirteenth St., Rankin St. and Nineteenth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilmington","county":"New Hanover County","state":"NC","lat":34.23932264950005,"lon":-77.92875152188324,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-29","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 of about twenty-six city blocks and eighty acres in Wilmington, North Carolina, made up of two early twentieth-century suburbs, Carolina Heights (begun 1908) and Winoca Terrace (1911), east of downtown.","why_significant":"The district is a largely intact collection of early twentieth-century houses and a few institutional buildings that reflect Wilmington's expansion into streetcar suburbs. It retains its original street grid, service alleys and mature landscaping. Its houses range from grand mansions to modest bungalows in many revival and Craftsman styles. The provided text does not include the Section 8 significance statement, so this is drawn from the description.","narrative":"Carolina Heights Historic District covers roughly twenty-six blocks and eighty acres east of downtown Wilmington. It combines two neighborhoods developed at about the same time: Carolina Heights, begun in 1908 under the leadership of Mary Bridgers as a suburb for prominent residents and a future Christian Science church, and Winoca Terrace, laid out in 1911 by Thomas H. Wright of J. G. Wright and Sons. Trolley lines linked both to downtown and Wrightsville Beach. The streets follow a grid, with wide sidewalks, brick walls, wrought-iron fences and mature azaleas, camellias and shade trees. Houses from the first three decades of the twentieth century include Neoclassical Revival, Georgian and Colonial Revival, English cottages, bungalows and Prairie-style designs by architect Burett Stephens. Service alleys and early garages record the arrival of the automobile. Institutional buildings include New Hanover County High School, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and First Church of Christ, Scientist. Most buildings remain remarkably intact.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Burett Stephens (architect, Prairie-style designs); Thomas H. Wright of J. G. Wright and Sons (developer of Winoca Terrace)","architectural_style":"Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival, Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely residential and substantially intact; most buildings have had few major exterior alterations, though some office buildings and a church parking lot have encroached. The inventory counts 391 contributing and 52 noncontributing buildings, plus sites, structures and objects.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.340102-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7215/47721542/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000317.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000317/80ddce74b4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000317/80ddce74b4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wm.fridrich","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fridrich_Residence,1916_Princess_Street_Wilmington_North_Carolina.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wm.fridrich</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:Fridrich_Residence,1916_Princess_Street_Wilmington_North_Carolina.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721542","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Heights_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460849"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/new-hanover-county/carolina-heights-historic-district-99000317/"}