Carolina Place Historic District

Carolina Place is a residential district of about forty-six acres east of Wilmington's historic core, laid out in 1906 on a grid of numbered streets and named avenues that curve to meet Wrightsville Avenue. The American Suburban Corporation of Norfolk, Virginia, bought the tract at public auction in early 1906 and sold lots on an installment plan, with streetcar service extended into the neighborhood to give residents access to work, shops and churches. Lots were 33 by 113 feet, and houses sit close to the street along tree-lined blocks. The district holds a range of houses, from Queen Anne and Classical Revival dwellings on Market Street and Wolcott Avenue to a large concentration of modest Craftsman bungalows built between 1915 and 1928. Its planning and its architecture are both recognized as significant, and the district is valued for showing how early twentieth-century suburban neighborhoods were organized for working families.