Architectural Survey Records & Reports Architectural Survey Records Survey files, containing written materials and photographs and organized by county, are maintained at the Survey and National Register Branch, State Historic Preservation Office, in Raleigh and at the Western Office of the Office of Archives and History, along with survey project reports and detailed maps showing the location of every recorded property. The survey database is organized by county, property name, and site number. The extensive collection of survey files, maps, photographs, and reports constitutes a research and reference source on the state's architecture and history, as well as providing private citizens, preservation organizations, and government agencies with a guide to the historic places that merit recognition and protection. All designated properties and districts and most surveyed properties have been mapped in a Geographic Information System (GIS) which is available to the public online at http://gis.ncdcr.gov/hpoweb. Survey records are also available in local repositories. The HPO is systematically posting architectural survey reports that have not been edited for survey publication manuscripts. All survey reports that have been submitted digitally (those written since ca. 2004) are posted. Earlier reports for surveys that have not been published, some prepared as a National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form, are being scanned and posted as time permits. Some of the reports prepared as MPDFs have not been submitted to the National Register; most of those that have been accepted by the National Register were submitted at least a year after the survey was completed and thus have dates on the MPDF that are different from the end date of the survey shown below. Architectural Survey Reports An important component of every architectural survey is the report that is prepared at the end of the project. The survey report describes and analyzes the historic architecture of the survey area within relevant historic contexts. Over the many years of the State Historic Preservation Office’s survey program, the reports have taken a number of forms. Some of the reports have separate sections on the survey area’s architecture and history while other blend the discussions of the area’s historical and architectural development. From the mid-1980s into the first decade of the twenty-first century, most of the reports were prepared as a Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF), a National Park Service “cover” report that presents an area’s historic contexts and property types in a manner that simplifies the future preparation of National Register of Historic Places nominations for properties identified by the survey as potentially eligible for National Register listing. All of the reports are on file at the State Historic Preservation Office. Reports that were prepared in a digital format (from ca. 2004 to the present) and have not been published are posted on this web site; earlier reports for unpublished surveys, including those prepared as MPDFs, are being scanned and posted as time permits.(Click here to access PDFs of survey reports posted thus far; click here to access PDFs of MPDFs posted thus far.) Reports for county and municipal surveys are listed alphabetically by county and survey area. A report for a thematic study confined to a single county is also included with the list for that county. All thematic and multi-county reports are listed as thematic projects after the county and municipal surveys. See also the Multiple Property Documentation Form list for those counties for which MPDFs have been prepared and are posted online. *** December 2020 update: the HPO has entered an agreement with the State Archives to make these reports available through the North Carolina Digital Collections. Until all of the reports are scanned and added to the collection, we will maintain the list and links found below. *** ALAMANCE COUNTYAlamance County Architectural Heritage (1980 Survey)Alamance County Survey Update (Historic Contexts), 2002Alamance County Survey Update (Property Types), 2002Alamance County Architectural Inventory, 2014, posted by the Alamance County Historic Properties CommissionWest Burlington Architectural Survey Update, 2021 ALEXANDER COUNTYAlexander County Survey, 1987 ASHE COUNTYAshe County Survey, 2008 BEAUFORT COUNTYBeaufort County Municipalities Survey, 2009Comprehensive Architectural Survey of Beaufort County: Phases II and III (Rural) FinalReport BERTIE COUNTYBertie County Survey, 2010 BRUNSWICK COUNTYBrunswick County Survey, 2010 BUNCOMBE COUNTYAsheville Architectural Survey Update, Phase I, 2011Asheville Architectural Survey Update, Phase II, 2011Black Mountain Survey, 2007 CALDWELL COUNTYCaldwell County Survey, 1987City of Lenoir Survey, 2018 CARTERET COUNTYCarteret County Survey, 2012 CATAWBA COUNTYHickory Survey Update, 2015 CLEVELAND COUNTYCleveland County Architectural Survey Update of Historic Resources from 1945 to 1975, 2019 COLUMBUS COUNTYColumbus County Reconnaissance Survey, 1998 CUMBERLAND COUNTYFayetteville Municipal Survey, 2001Fayetteville Modern Architectural Survey, 2009 CURRITUCK COUNTYCurrituck County Survey, 2010 CURRITUCK and DARE COUNTIESCurrituck Banks, North Banks, and Roanoke Island Survey, 2003 DAVIDSON COUNTYThomasville Survey, 2004 DURHAM COUNTYDurham County Survey, 1991Architectural and Historical Resources at Stagville, 1980 EDGECOMBE COUNTYTarboro Survey, 1979 FORSYTH COUNTYForsyth County Survey Update, 2007Forsyth County Survey Update, 2008Forsyth County Survey Update, 2009The Bethania Freedmen’s Community (Forsyth County), 2012Forsyth County’s Agricultural Heritage, 2012Forsyth County Architectural Survey Update, Phase I: The Unincorporated Portions of Southwest Forsyth County, the Town of Lewisville, and the Village of Clemmons, 2019Forsyth County Architectural Survey Update, Phase II: the Unincorporated Portions of North-Central Forsyth County and the towns of Bethania, Rural Hall, and Walkertown, 2020Forsyth County Architectural Survey Update, Phase III: the Unincorporated Portions of the Pinnacle, Vienna, Belews Creek, Belews Lake, Kernersville, Winston-Salem East and West, High Point, Midway, and Welcome USGS Quads; and the Town of Kernersville, 2021 FRANKLIN COUNTYFranklin County Survey Update, 2015 GASTON COUNTYGaston County African American Resources Survey, 2000Dallas Architectural Survey Update, 2019 GRAHAM COUNTYRobbinsville Comprehensive Architectural Survey, 2018 GRANVILLE COUNTYCity of Oxford Architectural Survey Update. 2018 GUILFORD COUNTYGreensboro Survey Update, Phase I-A, 2007Greensboro Survey Update, Phase I-B, 2008Greensboro Survey Update, Phase II: South Greensboro and Lake Daniel, 2009Greensboro Survey Update, Phase II: 1940-1970 Reconnaissance Survey, 2009Architectural Survey of African American Neighborhoods in East and Southeast Greensboro, 2020High Point Industrial Resources Survey, 2014 HARNETT COUNTYHarnett County Survey, 2008 HAYWOOD COUNTYHaywood County Survey, 1983Waynesville Architectural Survey Update, 2021 HENDERSON COUNTYHenderson County Survey, 1980Hendersonville Survey, 1988 HERTFORD COUNTYHertford County Survey, 2011 IREDELL COUNTYMooresville Survey, 2016 JACKSON COUNTYCashiers Survey Phase 2, 2014Jackson County Architectural Survey Update of Historic Resources from 1945-1975, 2021 LENOIR COUNTYLenoir County Survey Update (North of US 70, 2010)Lenoir County Survey Update (South of US 70, 2010) MACON COUNTYMacon County Survey, 1993 MECKLENBURG COUNTYMecklenburg County Survey, 1988Charlotte Post-WWII (1945-1965) Survey, 2000Charlotte Industrial and Institutional Survey, 2001Mecklenburg County African American Resources Survey, 2002Charlotte Survey Phase I, 2014Charlotte Survey Phase II, 2014 MOORE COUNTYSouthern Pines Historic District Survey Update, 2010 NORTHAMPTON COUNTYNorthampton County Survey, 2010 ORANGE COUNTYOrange County Student Survey, 1976Orange County Survey, 1993Orange County Survey Publication Manuscript, 1996Chapel Hill Township Survey (Outside Municipalities), 1992Architectural Survey and National Register Evaluation of St. Mary's Road, Orange County, 1999Hillsborough Architectural Survey, 2017 PENDER COUNTYPender County Survey, 1997Penderlea Survey, 2012 PITT COUNTYGreenville Survey Update, 2010 POLK COUNTYAn Architectural and Historical Survey of Tryon, North Carolina, 1979Downtown Tryon Survey, 2008 ROCKINGHAM COUNTYRockingham County Survey, 2003 STOKES COUNTYStokes County Survey, 1989 TRANSYLVANIA COUNTYWalking Around the World: African American Landscapes and Experience in Transylvania County, 2019 WAKE COUNTYCary Survey Update, 2014Raleigh Survey Phases I and II, 1989-1991Raleigh Survey Phase III, 1992Raleigh Survey Update (1945-1965), 2006 (Note: The MPDF accepted by NPS and posted elsewhere on this site is an edited version of a portion of the survey report)Raleigh Survey Update, 2016-2017Raleigh African American Neighborhoods, 1988Reconnaissance Survey Report for Non-Residential Raleigh, 2017Wake County Survey Update, Phases I & II, 2007Wake County Municipalities Survey Update, 2015: Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly SpringsWake County Municipalities Survey Update, 2016: Knightdale, Rolesville, and WendellWake County Survey Update, Phase III, 2017: Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly Springs Service Areas, Falls Non-urban Service AreaWake County Architectural Survey Update, Phase IV: Zebulon Corporate Limits and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, 2018Wake County Architectural Survey Update, Phase V: Long- and Short-Range Urban Service Areas of the Towns of Knightdale, Rolesville, Wendell, and Zebulon and the Contiguous Little River Water Supply Watershed of Eastern Wake County, 2019Wake Forest Architectural Survey Update (1958-1975), 2020 WASHINGTON COUNTYPlymouth Survey, 1990 WATAUGA COUNTYWatauga County Survey, 2003 YANCEY COUNTYYancey County Survey, 1981 THEMATIC and MULTI-COUNTY PROJECTSThe Architecture of the Department of Defense (nationwide), 2011The Bethania Freedmen’s Community (Forsyth County), 2012Charlotte Industrial and Institutional Survey, 2001Forsyth County’s Agricultural Heritage, 2012Historic Schools Context (Cleveland, Henderson, Polk, and Rutherford Counties), 2015Historic Store Context (Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland, McDowell, and Rutherford Counties), 2011Rosenwald Schools in Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, and Wilson Counties, 2007
Architectural Survey Records & Reports Architectural Survey Records Survey files, containing written materials and photographs and organized by county, are maintained at the Survey and National Register Branch, State Historic Preservation Office, in Raleigh and at the Western Office of the Office of Archives and History, along with survey project reports and detailed maps showing the location of every recorded property. The survey database is organized by county, property name, and site number. The extensive collection of survey files, maps, photographs, and reports constitutes a research and reference source on the state's architecture and history, as well as providing private citizens, preservation organizations, and government agencies with a guide to the historic places that merit recognition and protection. All designated properties and districts and most surveyed properties have been mapped in a Geographic Information System (GIS) which is available to the public online at http://gis.ncdcr.gov/hpoweb. Survey records are also available in local repositories. The HPO is systematically posting architectural survey reports that have not been edited for survey publication manuscripts. All survey reports that have been submitted digitally (those written since ca. 2004) are posted. Earlier reports for surveys that have not been published, some prepared as a National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form, are being scanned and posted as time permits. Some of the reports prepared as MPDFs have not been submitted to the National Register; most of those that have been accepted by the National Register were submitted at least a year after the survey was completed and thus have dates on the MPDF that are different from the end date of the survey shown below. Architectural Survey Reports An important component of every architectural survey is the report that is prepared at the end of the project. The survey report describes and analyzes the historic architecture of the survey area within relevant historic contexts. Over the many years of the State Historic Preservation Office’s survey program, the reports have taken a number of forms. Some of the reports have separate sections on the survey area’s architecture and history while other blend the discussions of the area’s historical and architectural development. From the mid-1980s into the first decade of the twenty-first century, most of the reports were prepared as a Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF), a National Park Service “cover” report that presents an area’s historic contexts and property types in a manner that simplifies the future preparation of National Register of Historic Places nominations for properties identified by the survey as potentially eligible for National Register listing. All of the reports are on file at the State Historic Preservation Office. Reports that were prepared in a digital format (from ca. 2004 to the present) and have not been published are posted on this web site; earlier reports for unpublished surveys, including those prepared as MPDFs, are being scanned and posted as time permits.(Click here to access PDFs of survey reports posted thus far; click here to access PDFs of MPDFs posted thus far.) Reports for county and municipal surveys are listed alphabetically by county and survey area. A report for a thematic study confined to a single county is also included with the list for that county. All thematic and multi-county reports are listed as thematic projects after the county and municipal surveys. See also the Multiple Property Documentation Form list for those counties for which MPDFs have been prepared and are posted online. *** December 2020 update: the HPO has entered an agreement with the State Archives to make these reports available through the North Carolina Digital Collections. Until all of the reports are scanned and added to the collection, we will maintain the list and links found below. *** ALAMANCE COUNTYAlamance County Architectural Heritage (1980 Survey)Alamance County Survey Update (Historic Contexts), 2002Alamance County Survey Update (Property Types), 2002Alamance County Architectural Inventory, 2014, posted by the Alamance County Historic Properties CommissionWest Burlington Architectural Survey Update, 2021 ALEXANDER COUNTYAlexander County Survey, 1987 ASHE COUNTYAshe County Survey, 2008 BEAUFORT COUNTYBeaufort County Municipalities Survey, 2009Comprehensive Architectural Survey of Beaufort County: Phases II and III (Rural) FinalReport BERTIE COUNTYBertie County Survey, 2010 BRUNSWICK COUNTYBrunswick County Survey, 2010 BUNCOMBE COUNTYAsheville Architectural Survey Update, Phase I, 2011Asheville Architectural Survey Update, Phase II, 2011Black Mountain Survey, 2007 CALDWELL COUNTYCaldwell County Survey, 1987City of Lenoir Survey, 2018 CARTERET COUNTYCarteret County Survey, 2012 CATAWBA COUNTYHickory Survey Update, 2015 CLEVELAND COUNTYCleveland County Architectural Survey Update of Historic Resources from 1945 to 1975, 2019 COLUMBUS COUNTYColumbus County Reconnaissance Survey, 1998 CUMBERLAND COUNTYFayetteville Municipal Survey, 2001Fayetteville Modern Architectural Survey, 2009 CURRITUCK COUNTYCurrituck County Survey, 2010 CURRITUCK and DARE COUNTIESCurrituck Banks, North Banks, and Roanoke Island Survey, 2003 DAVIDSON COUNTYThomasville Survey, 2004 DURHAM COUNTYDurham County Survey, 1991Architectural and Historical Resources at Stagville, 1980 EDGECOMBE COUNTYTarboro Survey, 1979 FORSYTH COUNTYForsyth County Survey Update, 2007Forsyth County Survey Update, 2008Forsyth County Survey Update, 2009The Bethania Freedmen’s Community (Forsyth County), 2012Forsyth County’s Agricultural Heritage, 2012Forsyth County Architectural Survey Update, Phase I: The Unincorporated Portions of Southwest Forsyth County, the Town of Lewisville, and the Village of Clemmons, 2019Forsyth County Architectural Survey Update, Phase II: the Unincorporated Portions of North-Central Forsyth County and the towns of Bethania, Rural Hall, and Walkertown, 2020Forsyth County Architectural Survey Update, Phase III: the Unincorporated Portions of the Pinnacle, Vienna, Belews Creek, Belews Lake, Kernersville, Winston-Salem East and West, High Point, Midway, and Welcome USGS Quads; and the Town of Kernersville, 2021 FRANKLIN COUNTYFranklin County Survey Update, 2015 GASTON COUNTYGaston County African American Resources Survey, 2000Dallas Architectural Survey Update, 2019 GRAHAM COUNTYRobbinsville Comprehensive Architectural Survey, 2018 GRANVILLE COUNTYCity of Oxford Architectural Survey Update. 2018 GUILFORD COUNTYGreensboro Survey Update, Phase I-A, 2007Greensboro Survey Update, Phase I-B, 2008Greensboro Survey Update, Phase II: South Greensboro and Lake Daniel, 2009Greensboro Survey Update, Phase II: 1940-1970 Reconnaissance Survey, 2009Architectural Survey of African American Neighborhoods in East and Southeast Greensboro, 2020High Point Industrial Resources Survey, 2014 HARNETT COUNTYHarnett County Survey, 2008 HAYWOOD COUNTYHaywood County Survey, 1983Waynesville Architectural Survey Update, 2021 HENDERSON COUNTYHenderson County Survey, 1980Hendersonville Survey, 1988 HERTFORD COUNTYHertford County Survey, 2011 IREDELL COUNTYMooresville Survey, 2016 JACKSON COUNTYCashiers Survey Phase 2, 2014Jackson County Architectural Survey Update of Historic Resources from 1945-1975, 2021 LENOIR COUNTYLenoir County Survey Update (North of US 70, 2010)Lenoir County Survey Update (South of US 70, 2010) MACON COUNTYMacon County Survey, 1993 MECKLENBURG COUNTYMecklenburg County Survey, 1988Charlotte Post-WWII (1945-1965) Survey, 2000Charlotte Industrial and Institutional Survey, 2001Mecklenburg County African American Resources Survey, 2002Charlotte Survey Phase I, 2014Charlotte Survey Phase II, 2014 MOORE COUNTYSouthern Pines Historic District Survey Update, 2010 NORTHAMPTON COUNTYNorthampton County Survey, 2010 ORANGE COUNTYOrange County Student Survey, 1976Orange County Survey, 1993Orange County Survey Publication Manuscript, 1996Chapel Hill Township Survey (Outside Municipalities), 1992Architectural Survey and National Register Evaluation of St. Mary's Road, Orange County, 1999Hillsborough Architectural Survey, 2017 PENDER COUNTYPender County Survey, 1997Penderlea Survey, 2012 PITT COUNTYGreenville Survey Update, 2010 POLK COUNTYAn Architectural and Historical Survey of Tryon, North Carolina, 1979Downtown Tryon Survey, 2008 ROCKINGHAM COUNTYRockingham County Survey, 2003 STOKES COUNTYStokes County Survey, 1989 TRANSYLVANIA COUNTYWalking Around the World: African American Landscapes and Experience in Transylvania County, 2019 WAKE COUNTYCary Survey Update, 2014Raleigh Survey Phases I and II, 1989-1991Raleigh Survey Phase III, 1992Raleigh Survey Update (1945-1965), 2006 (Note: The MPDF accepted by NPS and posted elsewhere on this site is an edited version of a portion of the survey report)Raleigh Survey Update, 2016-2017Raleigh African American Neighborhoods, 1988Reconnaissance Survey Report for Non-Residential Raleigh, 2017Wake County Survey Update, Phases I & II, 2007Wake County Municipalities Survey Update, 2015: Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly SpringsWake County Municipalities Survey Update, 2016: Knightdale, Rolesville, and WendellWake County Survey Update, Phase III, 2017: Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Holly Springs Service Areas, Falls Non-urban Service AreaWake County Architectural Survey Update, Phase IV: Zebulon Corporate Limits and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, 2018Wake County Architectural Survey Update, Phase V: Long- and Short-Range Urban Service Areas of the Towns of Knightdale, Rolesville, Wendell, and Zebulon and the Contiguous Little River Water Supply Watershed of Eastern Wake County, 2019Wake Forest Architectural Survey Update (1958-1975), 2020 WASHINGTON COUNTYPlymouth Survey, 1990 WATAUGA COUNTYWatauga County Survey, 2003 YANCEY COUNTYYancey County Survey, 1981 THEMATIC and MULTI-COUNTY PROJECTSThe Architecture of the Department of Defense (nationwide), 2011The Bethania Freedmen’s Community (Forsyth County), 2012Charlotte Industrial and Institutional Survey, 2001Forsyth County’s Agricultural Heritage, 2012Historic Schools Context (Cleveland, Henderson, Polk, and Rutherford Counties), 2015Historic Store Context (Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland, McDowell, and Rutherford Counties), 2011Rosenwald Schools in Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, and Wilson Counties, 2007