Summary Report: Survey Update, Hickory, North Carolina, October 2015

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From introduction: "In 2014 the City of Hickory received a grant from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (HPO) to update the existing architectural survey of the city and to record additional undocumented properties and neighborhoods constructed prior to 1970... The Hickory Survey Update project consisted of several specific tasks to update and record historic architectural resources within the city. The initial portion of the project focused on updating the existing survey files using digital photography and the HPO’s Access survey database. The HPO provided survey records for approximately 192 properties previously identified and located outside of the National Register-listed historic districts. The majority of the files date from the Hickory Municipal Survey completed in 1979-1980. At the outset of the project approximately forty of the original 192 resources were believed to have been destroyed. In addition to the individual resources noted above, the project required the assessment of five previously-surveyed neighborhoods for their potential National Register eligibility. Three of the five areas were surveyed in 1999, and evaluated as potentially eligible historic districts or boundary increase areas adjacent to listed historic districts. The five neighborhoods include Green Park, East Hillcrest, the area immediately adjacent to Lenoir-Rhyne University, a boundary increase for the Oakwood Historic District, and a boundary increase for the Kenworth Historic District on Third and Fourth streets. The next significant portion of the Hickory Survey Update project consisted of conducting a citywide reconnaissance survey to identify 100-125 unrecorded properties, primarily dating from the 1940s through 1970. In consultation with the local project coordinator and the HPO, the intended focus of the new survey was on non-residential properties, although a small number of individual residential resources were considered. The selected properties were then photographed, researched, and entered into the database. In addition to the individual properties, a reconnaissance-level survey was conducted for 10-15 subdivisions dating through 1970, with an emphasis on post-World War II development. The subdivisions were documented with streetscape views and photographs of individual houses within the development, and each area was recorded as an individual property." Funding was provided in part by a 2014 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Hickory (project number NC-14-012) administered by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (grant number P14AF00082) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Hickory, North Carolina is a Certified Local Government.

Summary Report: Survey Update, Hickory, North Carolina, October 2015

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