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North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources State Historic Preservation Office David L. S. Brook, Administrator Michael F. Easley, Governor Division of Archives and History Lisbeth C. Evans, Secretary Jeffrey J. Crow, Director June 12, 2001 MEMORANDUM To: William Gilmore Project Development & Environmental Analysis, NCDOT From: David Brook Ple___1:51,-Stur.A.Cinc)clz_ Re: Improve NC 24 from 2.8 miles east of 1-95 to 1-40, R-2303, Multi County, ER 01-9171 Thank you for your letter of May 4, 2000, transmitting the survey report addendum by Marvin A. Brown for the above project. We apologize for the delay in our response. The report addendum is eloquently written and meets our office's guidelines and those of the Secretary of the Interior. For purposes of compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, we concur that the following property is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under .the criterion cited: Stedman Historic District under Criteria A and C as an intact example of a rural Cumberland County town that arose, along with a railroad line and depot, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth tacCI7 centuries. The boundaries shown are appropriate. oc' There are two additions to the report which would be helpful to the reader and ensure that the report, as outlined in our guidelines, serves as a stand-alone document. These are the addition of a map that shows the relationship of the Stedman Historic District to the area of potential effect for the improvement of NC 24 and the former rail lines' being shown on Figure 2. While the text states that the extent of the former rail line parcel is depicted on the map of the district, the move of the depot away from the tracks and encroachments between First and Second Street create some confusion. A label or the use of a symbol for the former railroad right-of-way could clarify this matter for the reader. The above comments are offered in accord with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the regulations of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation at 36 CFR 800. If you have any questions concerning them, please contact Renee Gledhill-Earley at 733-4763. Thank you. cc: Mary Pope Furr, NCDOT Nicholas Graf, FHwA Marvin A. Brown bc: Brown/Montgomery' DOT Location Mailing Address Telephone/Fax Administration County 507 N. Blount St. Raleigh. NC 4617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh 27699-4617 (919) 733-4763 .733-8653 Restoration RF 515 N. Blount St. Raleigh NC 4613 Mail Service Center. Raleigh 27699-4613 (919) 733-6547 .715-4801 Survey & Planning 515 N. Blount St, Raleigh. NC 4618 Mail Service Center, Raleigh 27699-4618 (919) 733-4763 .715-4801 ADDENDUM TO A HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY REPORT PHASE II (INTENSIVE) NC 24 FROM 2.8 MILES EAST OF 1-95 TO 1-40 CUMBERLAND, SAMPSON, AND DUPLIN COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA EVALUATION OF STEDMAN HISTORIC DISTRICT TIP NO. R-2303 STATE PROJECT NO. 8.T280802 FEDERAL AID PROJECT NO. STPNHF-F-8-2-(17) Prepared For: PARSONS TRANSPORTATION GROUP, INC. Cary, North Carolina 27513 Prepared By: Marvin A. Brown URS CORPORATION - MARYLAND Raleigh, North Carolina 27604 APRIL 2001 ADDENDUM TO A HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY REPORT PHASE II (INTENSIVE) NC 24 FROM 2.8 MILES EAST OF 1-95 TO 1-40 CUMBERLAND, SAMPSON, AND DUPLIN COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA EVALUATION OF STEDMAN HISTORIC DISTRICT TIP No. R-2303 State Project No. 8.T280802 Federal Aid Project No. STPNHF-F-8-2(17) Prepared For: Parsons Transportation Group, Inc. 401 Harrison Oaks Boulevard, Suite 200 Cary, North Carolina 27513 Prepared By: URS Corporation - Maryland 3109 Poplarwood Court, Suite 301 Raleigh, North Carolina 27604 April 2001 l7/20/6/ Marvin A. Brown, rincipal Investigator Date URS Corporation - Maryland 't an P6)0.1 Mary Pope _ruff, Supervisor Date Historic Architectural Resources Section North Carolina Department of Transportation TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction and Summary of Findings 1 IL List of Figures and Plates 2 Ill. Methodology 4 IV. Inventory and Evaluation of Stedman Historic District 6 History 6 Description and Inventory 9 C Evaluation of Significance and National Register Eligibility 16 D Proposed National Register Boundaries and Justification 16 V. Bibliography 38 1 I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF FINDINGS The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) proposes to make improvements to NC 24 from 2.8 miles east of1-95 in Cumberland County to 1-40 in Duplin County. Within the past ten years, three historic architectural reports have been prepared for the project. In 1992 Mary L. Reeb drafted a Historic Architectural Survey Report for consultant Deleuw, Cather and Company, now Parsons Transportation Group (Parsons), which was rejected by the NCDOT as inadequate. In August 1997 Mary Pope Fun ofNCDOT prepared a Phase I (Reconnaissance) Historic Architectural Resources Survey Report. In July 1998 Scott Owen prepared a Phase II (Intensive) Historic Architectural Survey Report for NCDOT and Parsons. The Phase I report summarily identified the Stedman Historic District, along with other resources, as potentially eligible for listing in the National Register. The Phase II report evaluated the National Register eligibility of numerous resources within the project's Area of Potential Effect (APE). It further included a description of the physical environment of the APE and a historic and architectural background for Duplin, Sampson, and Cumberland counties. In February 2001 URS Corporation - Maryland (URS) entered into a contract with Parsons to prepare a focused addendum to the 1998 Phase II survey report. The contract called for the intensive-level survey of the previously identified Stedman Historic District. During the weeks of February 12 and 19,2001, Marvin A. Brown, senior architectural historian with URS, conducted fieldwork in Stedman and research in Fayetteville, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, and Stedman. Mr. Brown then prepared this report. URS agrees that there is a historic district in Stedman located on either side of the former alignment of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad. URS believes that this district has 29 principal resources, 22 of which contribute to the district and nine of which are noncontributing resources. 1 II. LIST OF FIGURES AND PLATES FIGURE TITLE PAGE 1 Project Locator Map 5 2 Proposed Stedman Historic District Resource Locator and Boundary Map . 18 PLATE TITLE PAGE 1 Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad Depot (193 Euclid Street), looking southeast 19 2 Acme Stores Fertilizer House (51** Front Street) and CF&YVRR alignment, looking east; railroad ties in foreground 19 3 Hub Everitt Store (204 Euclid Street) at left, Rural Electric Administration Office (200 Euclid) at left center, and John McMillan Store (207 Euclid) at far right, looking north 20 4 200 and 204 Euclid Street at right, 207 Euclid at left, and Sessoms House (5100 Jefferson Street) at left center, looking south 20 5 Later commercial buildings at 5102, 5070, and 5064 Front Street at left, looking southwest 21 6 Faircloth Mercantile Store (5050 Front Street) at left, manufactured house (210 Hillsboro Street) at center, and Stedman Baptist Church (200 Hillsboro Street) at right, looking southwest from park 21 7 Sessoms House (5100 Jefferson Street) at left, Methodist Parsonage (232 Euclid Street) at right, looking southwest 22 8 Rob Autry House (5026 Front Street) and outbuildings, looking west 22 9 D.P. Carter House (174 East Front Street) at right, Acme Stores Fertilizer House (51** Front Street) at left, looking northeast 23 10 Stedman Baptist Parsonage (227 Hillsboro Street) at left, Horne House (301 Hillsboro Street) at right, looking southeast 23 11 200 Hillsboro Street - east front and north side elevations; 210 Hillsboro Street at far left 24 12 218 Hillsboro Street - east front and north side elevations 24 13 217 Hillsboro Street - west front and north side elevations 25 14 227 Hillsboro Street - west front and south side elevations 25 15 301 Hillsboro Street - north front and west side elevations; observatory at far left 26 16 200 Euclid Street - east front and south side elevations; 5070 Front Street affixed to north side elevation at right 96 17 204 Euclid Street - east front and north side elevations 27 18 220 Euclid Street - east front and north side elevations 27 19 232 Euclid Street - east front and north side elevations 28 2 PLATE TITLE PAGE 70 312 Euclid Street - east front and south side elevations 28 21 1** Euclid Street, immediately north of 183 Euclid Street - looking northwest 29 22 183 Euclid Street - looking northeast 29 23 193 Euclid Street - looking northeast 30 24 203 Euclid Street - west front and north side elevations 30 25 207 Euclid Street - west front and south side elevations 31 26 311Euclid Street - west front and south side elevations 31 27 325 Euclid Street - west front and north side elevations 32 28 174 East First Street - south front and west side elevations 32 29 51** Front Street, immediately southeast of 193 Euclid Street - looking northwest 33 30 5026 Front Street - north front and east side elevations 33 31 5042 Front Street - north front and east side elevations 34 37 5050 Front Street - north front and east side elevations 34 33 5064 Front Street - north front and west side elevations 35 34 5102 Front Street - north front and west side elevations 35 35 5100 Jefferson Street - west front and south side elevations 36 36 5118 Jefferson Street - north front and west side elevations 36 37 5040 Blanche Street - north front and west side elevations 37 38 5050 Averitt Street - north front and east side elevations 37 3 III. METHODOLOGY The survey methodology for this project consisted of an intensive-level National Register evaluation of the Stedman Historic District in Cumberland County, North Carolina (Figure 1).