North Street-East Street Historic District

This neighborhood of 34 contributing buildings occupies the northeast corner of Greensboro's 1786 town plan, along North, East, Greene and Walnut Streets. Most houses are one- and two-story frame dwellings built between about 1840 and 1920, ranging from small cottages to near-estate-scale homes on North Street. Styles include Plantation Plain, Greek Revival, Victorian Eclectic and Georgian Revival, along with one Spanish Colonial-style stucco house unique in the town. Land here stayed in large tracts until late in the 1800s, and a building boom around the turn of the century produced many of the larger houses. Rear yards, pecan groves and outbuildings recall small town farmsteads. Walnut and North Streets stop short of the extension shown in an 1812 plan update, preserving one quadrant of the original layout. The district was listed for its architecture, its community planning and its agricultural history. Three brick ranch houses, two other postwar dwellings and a railroad overpass are noncontributing.