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Villa Place Historic District

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Area
  
27 ha

Year built
  
1908

Villa Place Historic District

Location
  
200-300 S. Grace St., 400-600 Hammond St., 200-300 Howell St., 400-600 Nash St, 200-300 Pearl St., 200-300 Villa St.; Roughly along Chester St., Tillery St., NC 64, and Pearl St., Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Architect
  
Stout, John C.; et. al.

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Colonial Revival

NRHP Reference #
  
99001368, 02000942 (Boundary Increase)

Added to NRHP
  
November 12, 1999, September 6, 2002 (Boundary Increase)

Villa Place Historic District is a national historic district located at Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina. It encompasses 321 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a residential section of Rocky Mount. The buildings primarily date between about 1900 and 1950, and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residential architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Machaven. Other notable buildings include the W.D. Cochran House (c. 1900), Mills-Watson House (c. 1914), Aladdin Homes Company "kit houses," the James Craig Braswell School (1940), Draine Confectionary (c. 1930), and West End Grocery (c. 1930).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, with a boundary increase in 2002.

References

Villa Place Historic District Wikipedia