Downtown Gastonia Historic District

Coordinates: 35°15′41″N 81°10′56″W / 35.26139°N 81.18222°W / 35.26139; -81.18222
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Downtown Gastonia Historic District
Second Gaston County Courthouse, 2011
Downtown Gastonia Historic District is located in North Carolina
Downtown Gastonia Historic District
Downtown Gastonia Historic District is located in the United States
Downtown Gastonia Historic District
LocationRoughly bounded by Main Ave., Broad St., Second Ave., and Chester St., Gastonia, North Carolina
Coordinates35°15′41″N 81°10′56″W / 35.26139°N 81.18222°W / 35.26139; -81.18222
Area46 acres (19 ha)
Built1910 (1910)
ArchitectWhite, Hugh E.; Milburn & Hester
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.03001375[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 6, 2004

Downtown Gastonia Historic District is a national

Robinson-Gardner Building. Other notable buildings include the U.S. Post Office (1935), York Medical Building (1938), Kress Department Store, Leibowitz Department Store (c. 1910), Ideal Moving Picture Theater (c. 1912), City Hall, Kirby Building (1922), First Baptist Church (1922), Gaston County War Memorial Hall (1928), and the (former) Gaston County Public Library (1930).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]

Gallery

  • Nick's Steak & Seafood in the former Webb Theater, 2014
    Nick's Steak & Seafood in the former Webb Theater, 2014
  • Third National Bank, 2014
    Third National Bank, 2014
  • Robinson-Gardner Building, 2014
    Robinson-Gardner Building, 2014
  • First National Bank Building, 2014
    First National Bank Building, 2014

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Jeffrey Shrimpton (September 2002). "Downtown Gastonia Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.