Downtown Greensboro Historic District

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Downtown Greensboro Historic District
Former Woolworth store in Greensboro, NC (2008).jpg
Former Woolworth store, November 2008
Downtown Greensboro Historic District is located in North Carolina
Downtown Greensboro Historic District
Location Elm, S. Davie, S. Green, and E. and W. Washington Sts., Greensboro, North Carolina
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Area 58 acres (23 ha)
Built 1885 (1885)
Architect Multiple
Architectural style Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods)
NRHP Reference # 82003458[1]
Added to NRHP June 17, 1982

Downtown Greensboro Historic District is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 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 (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.[1]

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