Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District

  • Also Known As: Gimghoul Piney Prospect Development

  • Vicinity: Roughly bounded by Gimghoul Rd, Ridge Ln., and Gladon Dr
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1923/00/00 T Felix Hickerson Engineer Gimghoul Piney Prospect Development survey plat is created
1924/00/00 Thomas C Atwood Architect T C Atwood builds 1-story Colonial Revival style duplex (106 Ridge Ln) to house several of his workers from Atwood and Nash
1925/00/00 715 Gimghoul Rd, a Classical Revival bungalow, is built. In the mid-1930s. a Sunday morning chamber music group began meet here, it was the beginning of the North Carolina Symphony.
1935/00/00 George Watts Carr Architect 208 Glandon Dr, gable-front Colonial Revival, is built in the late 1930s
1935/00/00 240 Glandon Dr, brick Colonial, is built in the late 1930s for Shipp (professor of history at UNC) and Kate Sanders. Kate was a public school teacher and the sister of Dr Frank Porter Graham.
1939/00/00 William Van Sprinkle Architect 739 Gimghoul Rd 2-story brick Colonial Revival is built

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Particulars for Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Architectural Style Bungalow-craftsman
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Owner Private
Historic Use Religious Property
Historic Use Secondary structure
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 5th August 1993

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District
Registry Address: Roughly bounded by Gimghoul Rd., Ridge Ln., and Gladon Dr.
Registry Number: 93000807
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Atwood, Thomas C.; Barber, Mr.
Architectural Style: Colonial revival, Bungalow-craftsman
Area in Acres: 35
Contributing Buildings: 42
Non-Contributing Buildings: 10
Contributing Structures: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Community Planning and Development, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1925-1949
Significant Year: 1924
Historic Function: Religion, Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Religious structure, Single dwelling, Secondary structure
Current Function: Domestic, Religion
Current Sub-Function: Religious structure Single dwelling Secondary structure

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