{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Hay, Person, Green, Gillespie, Bow, Old, W. Russell and Cool Spring Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05312556350006,"lon":-78.87773875240532,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 59-acre historic district in the original central business district of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, centered on the 1832 Market House and spanning parts of twenty-one city blocks. It includes buildings, a cemetery and railroad structures dating from the 1780s to 1949.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criterion A for community development and Criterion C for architecture. It preserves the original 1783 street plan and an unusually large number of pre-1900 resources, including commercial, civic, religious, railroad and residential buildings. Its architecture ranges from Federal and Greek Revival to Moderne and Art Deco.","narrative":"Fayetteville's downtown historic district covers about 59 acres of the city's original business center, laid out around the Market House under a 1783 street plan. Hay, Person, Green and Gillespie Streets radiate from the central square. The district holds 150 principal resources, most of them contributing, including stores, civic buildings, churches, warehouses, railroad stations, a few houses and Cross Creek Cemetery. Its oldest buildings include the 1788 Cool Spring Tavern and the ca. 1791 Liberty Point Store. Churches such as First Presbyterian, designed by A.J. Davis in 1832, and Evans Metropolitan AME Zion, built in 1893 by African American artisans, mark the city's rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1831. Later landmarks include the 1911 post office, the 1924 courthouse, the 1926 ten-story bank building and Moderne storefronts on Hay Street. The district was listed for its role in the city's community development and for the range of architecture from 1786 to 1949.","period_of_significance":"1786-1949","architect_builder":"Barton, Harry; Davis, A.J.; Drummond, William; Hartmann, Charles C.; Laslett, B. G.; Wooten, A. Mitchell & Assoc.; Waddell, James W.","architectural_style":"Commercial style, Neoclassical Revival, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, Craftsman, Greek Revival, Federal, Federal Revival, Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still a mix of commercial, government, religious, residential and railroad uses; some individual buildings, such as the former Central Fire Station, are noted as vacant or partly vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:52.700858-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7198/47719842/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000779.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000779/40160aa076-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000779/40160aa076-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FAYETTEVILLE_DOWNTOWN_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.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:FAYETTEVILLE_DOWNTOWN_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719842","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville_Downtown_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18207034"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"}