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Reidsville Historic District

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Built
  
c. 1865 (1865)

NRHP Reference #
  
86003391

Added to NRHP
  
12 March 1987

MPS
  
Reidsville MRA

Area
  
57 ha

Reidsville Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by W. Morehead, Southern Railway tracks, Lawson Ave., Main, Piedmontg, Vance and Lindsey Sts., Reidsville, North Carolina

Architect
  
Gambier, Richard; Et al.

Architectural style
  
Italianate, Queen Anne, Craftsman;Neo-Classical

Reidsville Historic District is a national historic district located at Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 324 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 11 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Reidsville. It was developed between about 1865 and 1941, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, American Craftsman, and Classical Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Penn House and Gov. David S. Reid House. Other notable buildings include the Oaks-Motley House (c. 1865), Colonel A. J. Boyd House (mid-1870s), Reid Block (1880s), Citizens' Bank Building, William Lindsey and company Tobacco Factory, First Baptist Church, Main Street Methodist Church, Melrose (1909) designed by architect Richard Gambier, R. L. Watt house designed by Willard C. Northup, First Presbyterian Church (1922), St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Grand Theatre, Belvedere Hotel, United States Post Office and Federal Building, and the Municipal Building (1926).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

Reidsville Historic District Wikipedia