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Summit Avenue Historic District

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MPS
  
Greensboro MPS

Area
  
38 ha

Added to NRHP
  
5 August 1993

NRHP Reference #
  
93000768

Year built
  
1895

Summit Avenue Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Chestnut, E. Bessemer, Cypress, Dewey, Park, and Percy Sts., Greensboro, North Carolina

Architect
  
Barton, Harry; Starrett and Van Vleck

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Bungalow/craftsman, Foursquare

Summit Avenue Historic District, also known as the Charles B. Aycock Historic District, is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 226 contributing buildings in a middle- and upper-class residential section of Greensboro. The houses were largely built between the 1890s and 1930s and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, American Foursquare, and Bungalow / American Craftsman-style architecture. The Sigmund Sternberger House (1926) is listed separately. Other notable buildings include the John C. Clapp House (c. 1900-1905), Robert L. Potts House (c. 1900-1905), William B. Vaught House (c. 1906), Edgar B. Jennette House (c. 1925-1930), and the Charles B. Aycock School (1922) designed by Starrett & van Vleck.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

References

Summit Avenue Historic District Wikipedia