Downtown Greensboro Historic District

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Downtown Greensboro Historic District
Old Woolworth's Department Store, Greensboro, NC.jpg
Former F.W. Woolworth Department Store, September 2019
Downtown Greensboro Historic District is located in North Carolina
Downtown Greensboro Historic District
LocationElm, S. Davie, S. Green, and E. and W. Washington Sts., Greensboro, North Carolina
Coordinates36°04′07″N 79°47′25″W / 36.06861°N 79.79028°W / 36.06861; -79.79028Coordinates: 36°04′07″N 79°47′25″W / 36.06861°N 79.79028°W / 36.06861; -79.79028
Area58 acres (23 ha)
Built1885 (1885)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleMixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods)
NRHP reference No.82003458[1]
Added to NRHPJune 17, 1982

Downtown Greensboro Historic District is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 96 contributing buildings in the central business district of Greensboro. The commercial buildings were built between about 1885 and the 1930s in a variety of popular architectural styles including Italianate and Art Deco. Located in the district is the separately listed Jefferson Standard Building. Other notable buildings include the Vanstory Building (c. 1885), Kress Building (1929), Woolworth's (c. 1929), Efrid's Department Store (c. 1930), Montgomery Ward (1936), the Carolina Theatre (1927), Center Theatre (1948), the former Belk Building (1939), Ellis Stone/Thalhimer's Department (1949-1950), and the former American Exchange National Bank Building (1920). The Woolworth's store is notable as the site of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, with a reevaluation in 2003.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Marvin A. Brown (July 1991). "Downtown Greensboro Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
  3. ^ Laura A. W. Phillips (April 2003). "Downtown Greensboro Historic District (Additional documentation)" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.


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