Apex Historic District

Apex's historic core is a district of about nine blocks in southwest Wake County, laid out along Salem Street and parallel to the railroad tracks. It contains 143 resources, including 81 principal buildings. About half are brick stores and civic buildings in the two central blocks, and the rest are houses at the north and south ends and along Center and West Chatham streets. Landmarks include the 1912 Apex Town Hall, the 1914 Union Depot, the 1925 Seaboard Air Line Freight Depot and a surviving tobacco warehouse. Houses range from Victorian examples to Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Tudor designs. The district was recognized for its role in the town's growth during the early twentieth-century railroad and tobacco boom and for its architecture. Most resources, 107 in all, kept their original character through 1943, giving Salem Street an almost continuous early twentieth century appearance.