Apex Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This northern expansion of the Apex Historic District takes in eighteen houses and their outbuildings along the one hundred and part of the two hundred block of Hunter Street, plus Grove and Thompson streets. Most date from the first half of the twentieth century and include bungalows, one- and two-story triple-A houses, and hip-roofed cottages, many keeping original wood siding, turned porch posts and shingled gables. The land was once the farm of Alice and Adolphus B. Hunter, a prominent Apex businessman. Houses began appearing on the south side of Hunter Street in the early 1900s, and the demolition of two tobacco warehouses on the north side in the late 1920s encouraged more building. The Hunters built several small houses for families who worked for them. The area was added to the district for its architecture, with a period of significance from 1907 to about 1950. It remains a quiet residential neighborhood, with Hunter Street carrying the heaviest traffic.