Downtown Wake Forest Historic District is a national historic district located at Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object built between about 1890 and 1949 and located in the central business district of the town of Wake Forest. It includes notable examples of Colonial Revival and Art Deco style architecture. Notable buildings include the Lovelace Building (1940s), Dick Frye Restaurant (1940s), Powers-Barbee Building (c. 1890, 1940s), Wilkinson Building (1899), B&S Department Store (1894-1895, 1949), Arrington Building (1915), Bank of Wake (1895), Wake Forest Post Office (1914), Collegiate Theater (1915), and Wake Forest Post Office (1940).[2]
Downtown Wake Forest Historic District | |
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| Location | South White St. roughly from E. Roosevelt Ave. to Owen Ave., Wake Forest, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°58′48″N 78°30′36″W / 35.98000°N 78.51000°W |
| Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Built | 1915 |
| Architect | Hill, George Watts |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Art Deco |
| MPS | Wake County MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 02000059[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 20, 2002 |
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (May 2001). "Downtown Wake Forest Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved June 1, 2015.