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L. D. Giddens and Son Jewelry Store

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
79001763

Architectural style
  
Early Commercial

Added to NRHP
  
19 March 1979

L. D. Giddens and Son Jewelry Store

Location
  
135 S. Center St., Goldsboro, North Carolina

Built
  
1839 (1839)-1847, c. 1870, 1926, 1959

L. D. Giddens and Son Jewelry Store is a historic commercial building located at Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was built between 1839 and 1847, and is a two-story, three bay, brick building. It measures 104 feet long and 23 feet, 6 inches wide. It features cast iron ornamentation and a freestanding clock (1877) at the street measuring 14 feet high. L. D. Giddens and Son was founded in 1859 and may be the oldest jewelry store in North Carolina.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

L. D. Giddens and Son Jewelry Store Wikipedia