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Wilson Central Business Tobacco Warehouse Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
84003876

Added to NRHP
  
20 December 1984

Area
  
57 ha

Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Pender, Green, Pine, S. Jackson, and Hines Sts., Wilson, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian, Art Deco

Similar
  
Imagination Station Science, Wilson County Courthouse, Cherry Hotel

Wilson central business tobacco warehouse historic district top 7 facts


Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse District is a national historic district located at Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. It encompasses 152 contributing buildings, 20 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district of Wilson. The district includes notable examples of Late Victorian and Art Deco style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Branch Banking Building, Cherry Hotel, and Wilson County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the Woodard-Watson Warehouse, Planter's Warehouse, Passenger Station and Freight Depot (1924), Jackson Chapel First Baptist Church (1913), St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church (1915), Imperial Tobacco Company (c. 1903, c. 1910, 1919), Winstead-Hardy Building (c. 1866), Rountree Building (1870s), Planter's Bank Building (1920), United States Post Office and Courthouse (1927), Charles L. Coon High School (1922), First National Bank of Wilson Building (1927), Wilson Theatre (1922), Odd Fellows Lodge (1896), and the Works Projects Administration financed Wilson Municipal Building (1938).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse Historic District Wikipedia