{"nrhp_refnum":"99001368","name":"Villa Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"200-300 S. Grace St., 400-600 Hammond St., 200-300 Howell St., 400-600 Nash St, 200-300 Pearl St., 200-300 Villa St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rocky Mount","county":"Nash County","state":"NC","lat":35.94117033750007,"lon":-77.80351324555639,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 35-acre residential historic district on the west side of downtown Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina, made up of houses, garages and one school dating from about 1900 to 1949.","why_significant":"The district is the most intact residential area next to Rocky Mount's city center. It contains large homes built for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad executives and leading industrialists, plus smaller stylish houses of clerks and merchants. It shows nationally popular early twentieth-century styles and is recognized for community development and architecture.","narrative":"Villa Place is a tightly knit residential neighborhood of about 35 acres just west of downtown Rocky Mount. Its blocks hold single-family and multi-family houses, garages and one school, built between about 1900 and 1949. Many of the larger homes were built for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad executives and local industrialists, while ticket agents, bookkeepers, merchants and salesmen built smaller but stylish houses nearby. The streets show a wide range of early twentieth-century styles, including Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival, Foursquare, Craftsman bungalows, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival. Machaven, a brick Neoclassical Revival residence designed by Raleigh architect H. P. S. Keller, is the focal point and was listed separately in 1980. Local architect-builder John C. Stout designed or built other notable houses, and the 1940 Moderne-style James Craig Braswell School was designed by Harry J. Harles. The district was listed for its role in community development and for the quality and intactness of its architecture, with 171 of 203 resources counted as contributing.","period_of_significance":"circa 1900-1949","architect_builder":"Stout, John C.; Pool, H.S.; Keller, H.P.S.; Harles, Harry J.; Rose and Son, D.J.","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival, Foursquare, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Elizabethan Revival, Tudor Revival, Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Of 203 resources, 171 contribute to the district and 32 buildings are noncontributing; the district still contains dwellings, a school and some commercial and meeting uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.545577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7215/47721518/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99001368.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721518","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/nash-county/villa-place-historic-district-99001368/"}