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Craver Apartment Building

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Bungalow/craftsman

Added to NRHP
  
26 June 1998

Built
  
c. 1942 (1942)

NRHP Reference #
  
98000726

Craver Apartment Building

Location
  
706-712 Chestnut St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina

MPS
  
African-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem MPS

Similar
  
Reynolda House Museum, Winston Tower, Bowman Gray Stadium, W Dennie Spry Soccer St, Southeastern Center for Contemp

Craver Apartment Building is a historic apartment building located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built about 1942, and is a two-story, five bay, brick-veneered rectangular block structure with hipped roof and exposed rafter ends. It has a hipped roof and exposed rafter ends in the Bungalow / American Craftsman style. It features porches on both levels supported by full-height square brick posts. The building was built as rental apartments for African-American families just before World War II.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

References

Craver Apartment Building Wikipedia