College Hill Historic District

College Hill is a residential district on a gentle rise just west of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Its streets hold roughly 387 resources, most of them frame houses set close together on narrow urban lots with shallow lawns and mature shade trees. Development began around the Greensboro Female College, which opened on land purchased in 1837, and accelerated after the 1891 extension of city limits and the 1892 opening of the state Normal and Industrial School for White Girls. The Walker-Scarborough House, dating from about 1845, is among the earliest surviving dwellings. The district holds one of the largest groups of Queen Anne and transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival houses in the city, built mostly in the 1890s and 1900s. Later bungalows and Craftsman and Colonial Revival foursquares followed in the 1910s and 1920s. Its growth tracks the arrival of the electric streetcar around 1902 and the paving of its streets.