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Pinehurst Race Track

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Built
  
1915 (1915)

Opened
  
1915

Added to NRHP
  
27 November 1992

NRHP Reference #
  
92001628

Area
  
20 ha

Pinehurst Race Track

Nearest city
  
Jct. of Morgantown Rd. and NC 5, SE corner, near Pinehurst, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Mission/spanish Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival

Pinehurst Race Track is a historic horse racing track and national historic district located at Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 8 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure on a complex of barns, stables and other horse-related buildings and paddocks arranged around two oval-shaped race tracks. The oval-shaped race tracks are believed to have been laid out by 1915 as part of the Pinehurst Race Track established by Leonard Tufts. The Amphidrome is a large agricultural exhibition hall built about 1917. It is a 2 1/2-story, gable-roofed building with stuccoed exterior walls and massive timber roof trusses in the Mission Revival style. Other contributing resources include six paddocks (c. 1916-1920), six barns (c. 1910), harness shop (1930), farrier shop (c. 1910), clubhouse (c. 1916), the network of lanes and driveways (c. 1910), and fences (c. 1910). Pinehurst Race Track is the site of the oldest surviving early-20th century fair exhibition hall in the state.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

Pinehurst Race Track Wikipedia