Cleveland County Architectural Survey Update of Historic Resources from 1945 to 1975

Pezzoni, J.

From the introduction: "In January 2019 Cleveland County contracted with Landmark Associates to conduct an architectural survey of approximately 200 resources dating to the 1945-75 period in the country. The project was funded by Cleveland County and Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) monies administered by the N.C. Historic Preservation Office (HPO). The project had two phases: a planning phase, conducted in January and February 2019, and the survey proper, completed in August 2019. The planning phase identified and characterized resources for survey and gathered relevant historical information for context, resulting in the preparation of a preliminary report. The survey proper resulted in the architectural survey (documentation) of over 200 resources from the 1945-75 period, data entry into the HPO's Access database, and the completion of a final project report including recommendations for individual resources and areas that warrant consideration for the state's Study List of potentially National Register-eligible resources. ...The project area encompassed Cleveland County and fourteen of its incorporated municipalities with the exception of Kings Mountain and its Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ). The temporal range of the survey, 1945 to 1975, reflected the project's status as a follow up to a comprehensive county survey conducted in 1997-98, which recorded resources up to the late 1940s and culminated in the 2003 publication of Architectural Perspectives of Cleveland County, North Carolina. The thirty-year span from 1945 to 1975 therefore covers resources that are or will soon be considered historic but were not recorded in the previous survey. A few pre-1945 resources were documented as well. Usually these were resources of considerable interest that had not been surveyed before, or previously surveyed resources for which the collection of more information was warranted. The project did not have a specific thematic focus but an effort was made to document properties associated with African American heritage. Survey entailed the field documentation of selected resources involving photography and the noting of architectural features. The history of resources was determined largely from secondary sources, primary sources such as city directories, and interviews with knowledgeable individuals. The principal product of the survey was 214 property records entered into the HPO's survey database and generated as paper files archived at the HPO's Western Office in Asheville. A digital version of the property records and photographs was also provided to Cleveland County and the HPO shared GIS layers with the County. Another product was the Study List recommendations included at the end of the report which will be reviewed by the County and the HPO and scheduled for presentation to the N.C. National Register Advisory Committee (NRAC) at its October 2019 meeting." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, Office of Archives and History, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P18AF00042).

Cleveland County Architectural Survey Update of Historic Resources from 1945 to 1975

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