W.C. Brown Apartment Building

Coordinates: 36°6′9″N 80°14′28″W / 36.10250°N 80.24111°W / 36.10250; -80.24111
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W.C. Brown Apartment Building
MPS
African-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem MPS
NRHP reference No.98000725[1]
Added to NRHPJune 26, 1998

W.C. Brown Apartment Building was a historic apartment building located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built about 1941, and was a two-story brick-veneered rectangular block structure. It had a hipped roof and exposed rafter ends in the Bungalow / American Craftsman style. The building was built as rental apartments for African-American families just before World War II. The building housed workers at the nearby R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.[2] The building has been demolished.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Langdon Edmunds Oppermann (September 1997). "W.C. Brown Apartment Building" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.