Downtown Greensboro Historic District

Historic district in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place

Significant dates

Downtown Greensboro Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Former F.W. Woolworth Department Store, September 2019
36°04′07″N 79°47′25″W / 36.06861°N 79.79028°W / 36.06861; -79.79028
Area	58 acres (23 ha)
Built	1885 (1885)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods)
NRHP reference No.	82003458^[1] (original) 100008850 (increase)
Added to NRHP	June 17, 1982
Boundary increase	April 20, 2023

Downtown Greensboro Historic District is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. When first listed, the district encompassed 96 contributing buildings in the central business district of Greensboro. The commercial buildings were built between about 1885 and the 1930s in a variety of popular architectural styles including Italianate and Art Deco. Located in the district is the separately listed Jefferson Standard Building. Other notable buildings include the Vanstory Building (c. 1885), Kress Building (1929), Woolworth's (c. 1929), Efrid's Department Store (c. 1930), Montgomery Ward (1936), the Carolina Theatre (1927), Center Theatre (1948), the former Belk Building (1939), Ellis Stone/Thalhimer's Department Store (1949-1950), and the former American Exchange National Bank Building (1920). The Woolworth's store is notable as the site of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, with a reevaluation in 2003, and boundary adjustments in 2023.^[1] The most recent changes included adding city and country government buildings completed by 1975.^[4]

Gallery

Piedmont Building, 2015
Dixie Fire Insurance Company Building, 2015
Center Theater & Porter Drug Store, 2015
American Exchange National Bank, 2015
Carolina Theater, 2015
Greensboro Passenger Depot, 2015

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Marvin A. Brown (July 1991). "Downtown Greensboro Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
^ Laura A. W. Phillips (April 2003). "Downtown Greensboro Historic District (Additional documentation)" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
^ "Business Milestones". News and Record. December 15, 2023.