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Laurinburg Commercial Historic District

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Architectural style
  
Moderne, Art Deco

Area
  
8 ha

Added to NRHP
  
10 December 2003

NRHP Reference #
  
03001274

Year built
  
1893

Laurinburg Commercial Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Church, Atkinson, Biggs Sts. and the Laurinburg and Southern RR, Laurinburg, North Carolina

Architect
  
Bonitz, Henry E.; Simon. Louis A.; Weaver. John A.

Laurinburg Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 51 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the central business district of Laurinburg. They were built between about 1893 and 1953 and include notable examples of Streamline Moderne and Art Deco architecture. Notable buildings include the Central Hotel (c. 1893), McDougald's Furniture Store and Funeral Parlor (c. 1904), Everington's Drug Store (c. 1904), Scotland Pharmacy (1935), U.S. Post Office (1939) designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon and built by the Federal Works Administration, First United Methodist Church (1918), Hammond Company Building, and (former) Winn Dixie Grocery Store (1953).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

Laurinburg Commercial Historic District Wikipedia


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