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Ayden Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
94001026

Year built
  
1890

Area
  
59 ha

Added to NRHP
  
26 August 1994

Ayden Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Verna St., Peachtree St., E. College St. and Planters St., Ayden, North Carolina

Architect
  
Benton & Benton Associates; Wilburn, Leila Ross

Architectural style
  
Bungalow/Craftsman, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian

The Ayden Historic District is a national historic district located at Ayden, Pitt County, North Carolina. The 146-acre (59 ha) district encompasses 319 contributing buildings and six contributing structures in the town of Ayden. It includes buildings dated from the late-19th to mid-20th century and notable examples of Bungalow / American Craftsman, Colonial Revival, and Queen Anne architecture. Notable buildings include the original Ayden Town Hall (1915), Turnage Brothers Building (c. 1914), Moore House (c. 1890), John Stanley Hart House (c. 1893), Thelbert Worthington House (1930) designed by Leila Ross Wilburn, Ayden Baptist Church (1941), the Lloyd and Lillian Turnage House (1923) and Ayden Methodist Church (1926) designed by Benton & Benton Associates, Zion Chapel Free Will Baptist Church (1924), and Mount Olive Baptist Church (c. 1915).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

Ayden Historic District Wikipedia