Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse Historic District


Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Wilson Municipal Building (1938), December 2010
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Location	Roughly bounded by Pender, Green, Pine, S. Jackson, and Hines Sts., Wilson, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°43′26″N 77°55′41″W / 35.72389°N 77.92806°W / 35.72389; -77.92806Coordinates: 35°43′26″N 77°55′41″W / 35.72389°N 77.92806°W / 35.72389; -77.92806
Area	141 acres (57 ha)
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian, Art Deco
NRHP Reference #	84003876^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 20, 1984

Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse District is a national historic district located at Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. It encompasses 152 contributing buildings, 20 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district of Wilson. The district includes notable examples of Late Victorian and Art Deco style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Branch Banking Building, Cherry Hotel, and Wilson County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the Woodard-Watson Warehouse, Planter's Warehouse, Passenger Station and Freight Depot (1924), Jackson Chapel First Baptist Church (1913), St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church (1915), Imperial Tobacco Company (c. 1903, c. 1910, 1919), Winstead-Hardy Building (c. 1866), Rountree Building (1870s), Planter's Bank Building (1920), United States Post Office and Courthouse (1927), Charles L. Coon High School (1922), First National Bank of Wilson Building (1927), Wilson Theatre (1922), Odd Fellows Lodge (1896), and the Works Projects Administration financed Wilson Municipal Building (1938).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Tom Butchko (June 1984). "Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-07-01.

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