W.C. Brown Apartment Building Explained

W.C. Brown Apartment Building
Location:311-317 E. 7th St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.1025°N -80.2411°W
Architecture:Bungalow/craftsman
Added:June 26, 1998
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:98000725

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.[1] The building has been demolished.

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Langdon Edmunds Oppermann . W.C. Brown Apartment Building. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1997. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.