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Gwyn Avenue Bridge Street Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
07000882

Added to NRHP
  
28 August 2007

Area
  
24 ha

Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by N. Bridge St., Mill View Rd., Market St. and Church St., Elkin, North Carolina

Architect
  
Ludlow, Jacob Lott; Barber, George Franklin

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman

Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Elkin, Surry County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 124 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of Elkin. They were primarily built between about 1891 and 1955 and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Notable buildings include the Elkin Presbyterian Church (1937, 1944, 1950, 1955, 1961), First Baptist Church (1955, 1968), Alexander Martin Smith House (1893–1897) designed by George Franklin Barber, the Gwyn-Chatham-Gwyn House (c. 1872, 1911, 1936), Richard Gwyn Smith House (c. 1918), and Mason Lillard House (c. 1910).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District Wikipedia