Cold Spring Park Historic District

Cold Spring Park is a residential neighborhood of about fourteen acres on a grid of streets north of downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina. Its houses were built on lots platted in 1921 from an earlier 1910 subdivision called Wheeler Park, mostly during the 1920s and again in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The majority are one-story Craftsman bungalows, typically with exposed rafter ends, knee braces, and front porches on brick piers, and the district also includes Ranch houses from the 1950s. Sanborn maps and city directories from the 1930s show that many residents were working-class families employed at nearby industries, including a cord braiding plant, a Coca-Cola bottling plant, and the Southern Railway. The district is significant for documenting this neighborhood's role in the city's housing boom, and for its collection of bungalows that retain much of their original form. Stone retaining walls and field stone features give the hillside streets a distinctive character.