Dallas Architectural Survey

Pezzoni, J.

Introduction: "In early 2019, Gaston County, on behalf of the Town of Dallas, contracted with Landmark Preservation Associates to conduct an architectural survey of 108 historic resources in the Town of Dallas. The project is funded by Gaston County and Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) monies administered by the N.C. State Historic Preservation (HPO). The survey resulted in the architectural survey (documentation) of resources, data entry into the HPO's Access database, and the completion of a final project report with recommendations for individual resources and areas that warrant consideration for the state's Study List of potentially National Register-eligible resources. The project was undertaken by architectural historian J. Daniel Pezzoni of Landmark Preservation Associates and supervised by Tiffany Faro, Development Services Director for the Town of Dallas, and Elizabeth Crawley King, Architectural Survey Coordinator with the HPO. The project area encompasses area within the Town's jurisdictional boundaries. The temporal range extends from the nineteenth century (the date of the earliest extant resources) to ca. 1970, and includes survey of selected resources built during the decade of the 1970s. Survey entailed the field documentation of resources involving photography and the noting of architectural features. Historical information on the resources was determined largely from secondary sources, primary sources such as Gaston County directories, the county's Geographical Information System (GIS) database, and interviews with knowledgeable individuals. Property records were entered into the HPO's survey database and generated as paper files archived at the HPO's main office in Raleigh. A digital version of the property records and photographs was provided to the Town, which will also receive GIS layers from the HPO. The Study List recommendation at the end of this report will be reviewed by the Town 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).