Downtown Wake Forest Historic District

Historic district in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Downtown Wake Forest Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

35°58′48″N 78°30′36″W / 35.98000°N 78.51000°W / 35.98000; -78.51000
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	1915 (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

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]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.^[1]

References

^ ^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.