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Hawkins Avenue Historic District

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MPS
  
Lee County MPS

Area
  
34 ha

Added to NRHP
  
5 July 2000

NRHP Reference #
  
00000771

Year built
  
1900

Hawkins Avenue Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Hill Ave., First St., Charlotte Ave., and Horner Blvd., Sanford, North Carolina

Architect
  
Matthews, John; Brown, J.W., et al.

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, et al.

Hawkins avenue historic district top 5 facts


Hawkins Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina. It encompasses 200 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Sanford. The district includes notable examples of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne style architecture, with buildings largely dated between about 1900 to the 1930s. Located in the district is the separately listed Sanford High School, Former. Other notable buildings include the John McIver House (1880s), Duncan E. McIver House (1893), Malcolm D. McNeill House (c. 1903), E.L. Gavin House (1922), First Presbyterian Church of Sanford (1914), First Baptist Church (1925), the former Sanford Cotton Mill complex, and the Liles Bonded Cotton Warehouse (c. 1920).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

Hawkins Avenue Historic District Wikipedia