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Kinston Commercial Historic District

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Architect
  
L. L. Mallard

MPS
  
Kinston MPS

Area
  
8 ha

Added to NRHP
  
3 June 1994

Architectural style
  
Art Deco, Romanesque

NRHP Reference #
  
94000569

Year built
  
1900

Kinston Commercial Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by E. Blount, W. Blount, N. Herritage, W. North and N. Queen Sts., Kinston, North Carolina

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Kinston Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 30 contributing buildings in a mixed commercial and industrial section of Kinston. The district is considered a boundary increase to the previously listed Queen-Gordon Streets Historic District. The buildings include notable examples of Art Deco and Romanesque style architecture and date between 1896 and 1941. Notable buildings include the Carolina Theatre (1935), Cash Supply Store Building (c. 1914), Spence Motor Company Building, and Ellis Carriage Factory (1908-1914).

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

References

Kinston Commercial Historic District Wikipedia