Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Location: | Roughly N. Queen and Gordon Sts., Kinston, North Carolina |
Coordinates: | 35.2619°N -77.5811°W |
Architect: | Benton & Benton; Blalock, Robert L. |
Architecture: | Classical Revival, Beaux Arts, Romanesque |
Added: | November 8, 1989 |
Refnum: | 89001765 |
Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 20 contributing buildings in a mixed commercial and industrial section of Kinston. The buildings include notable examples of Classical Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Romanesque style architecture and date between 1895 and the mid-1930s. Notable buildings include the Gordon Street Christian Church (1912-1915), (former) U. S. Post Office/Federal Building (1915), Citizens / First National Bank Building (1903), (former) Farmers and Merchants Bank (1924), Canady Building (1899), and the LaRoque and Hewitt Building (c. 1900).[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Kinston Commercial Historic District is considered a boundary increase to the Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District.