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Lee Avenue Historic District

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MPS
  
Lee County MPS

Area
  
22 ha

Added to NRHP
  
6 September 2002

NRHP Reference #
  
02000944

Year built
  
1882

Lee Avenue Historic District

Location
  
Roughly along Lee Avenue, W. Main St., S. Academy St., and W. Raleigh St., Sanford, North Carolina

Architect
  
Cox, Leslie P.; McBryde, et al.

Architectural style
  
Bungalow/craftsman, et al.

Lee Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina. It encompasses 70 contributing buildings in the historic village of Jonesboro, now part of Sanford. The district includes notable examples of Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture, with buildings largely dated between about 1882 to the 1940s. Notable buildings include the Pierce-Seawell House (c. 1882), Barnes House (c. 1886), Jonesboro Methodist Church Parsonage (c. 1885), Lonnie Thomas House (1941), and Jonesboro Baptist Church (1950).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

References

Lee Avenue Historic District Wikipedia