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West Selma Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
11000975

Added to NRHP
  
30 December 2011

Area
  
36 ha

West Selma Historic District

Location
  
Bounded by W. Railroad, N. Brevard, W. Richardson & N. Pollock Sts., Selma, North Carolina

Architect
  
Atkinson, S. J; Rose, William Preston

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Moderne, Bungalow/Craftsman

West selma historic district top 5 facts


West Selma Historic District is a national historic district located at Selma, Johnston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 217 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structures in predominantly residential section of Selma. It includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Moderne, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture and buildings dating from about 1880 to 1961. Located in the district is the separately listed Nowell-Mayerburg-Oliver House and William E. Smith House. Other notable buildings include the Edgerton Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church (1910, 1928, 1950), Abdalla House (c. 1940), Dr. Joshua W. Vick House (c. 1880, home of one of the developers of Vick’s Vapor Rub), Stella and William H. Etheridge House (also known as “Turnwood,” 1897), Dr. R. Marvin Blackmon House, Samuel P. Wood House (1935), Janie and C. E. Kornegay House (1923), Selma Presbyterian Church (c. 1912, 1942), St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church/Vernon Wiggs House (c. 1900, 1946), and Pepsi Bottling Company (c. 1935).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

West Selma Historic District Wikipedia