{"nrhp_refnum":"99000698","name":"North Main Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Whitsett, New Hill, N. Melville, Market, Mill and Sideview Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Graham","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.07603581200004,"lon":-79.40037034976513,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district on the north side of the business district of Graham, the county seat of Alamance County, North Carolina, covering about twenty-four acres and sixteen blockfaces. It contains houses, two schools, one commercial building and three churches dating from the 1850s to 1949.","why_significant":"The district is described as the most intact late nineteenth and early twentieth century residential neighborhood in Graham, with houses built for businessmen, doctors, lawyers and industrialists. It is argued to be significant under Criterion A for its development as a middle-class streetcar-era neighborhood and under Criterion C for its range of architectural styles, including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman and kit houses.","narrative":"Graham's North Main Street Historic District is a residential area of about twenty-four acres north of the county seat's business district, containing sixty-four principal buildings built between the 1850s and 1949. Many of its houses were built for merchants, doctors, lawyers and mill owners, and they show a range of popular styles, including Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Craftsman. The Holt-Clapp House, at 309 North Maple Street, is an example of vernacular Italianate work dating to about 1860. The Parker-Long House at 609 North Main Street is a Colonial Revival dwelling with a green-tiled hipped roof. The area developed along a streetcar line that ran on North Main Street from 1911 to 1923, which made it a suburb of Burlington. Its houses are regarded as the most intact residential group of that era in Graham, and the district's architecture and community growth from the 1890s to 1949 are the grounds for its listing.","period_of_significance":"circa 1850-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.954727-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7188/47718888/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000698.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718888","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Main_Street_Historic_District_(Graham,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17560763"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/north-main-street-historic-district-99000698/"}