Kinston Commercial Historic District

Historic district in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Kinston Commercial Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

35°15′46″N 77°34′50″W / 35.26278°N 77.58056°W / 35.26278; -77.58056
Area	21 acres (8.5 ha)
Built	1900 (1900)
Architect	L. L. Mallard
Architectural style	Art Deco, Romanesque
MPS	Kinston MPS
NRHP reference No.	94000569^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 3, 1994

Kinston Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 30 contributing buildings in a mixed commercial and industrial section of Kinston. The district is considered a boundary increase to the previously listed Queen-Gordon Streets Historic District. The buildings include notable examples of Art Deco and Romanesque style architecture and date between 1896 and 1941. Notable buildings include the Carolina Theatre (1935), Cash Supply Store Building (c. 1914), Spence Motor Company Building, and Ellis Carriage Factory (1908-1914).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Eastern Office (March 1994). "Kinston Commercial Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.