Creswell Historic District

Creswell Historic District covers the older commercial and residential heart of a small town in eastern Washington County, North Carolina. The town was founded in 1874, and the district follows its original perimeter with additions for early twentieth-century growth. It includes 123 resources, of which 81 contribute to its character. The oldest building is the circa 1877 A. G. Walker Store, a two-story Italianate commercial building. Nearby are 1890s houses with bracketed windows, curved staircases and sawnwork porches, along with turn-of-the-century frame stores along East Main Street. Churches such as the 1898 Gothic Revival and Queen Anne Christ Episcopal Church, the 1895 Methodist Protestant Church and the 1918 Methodist Episcopal Church add to the mix. Later Craftsman bungalows, Colonial Revival houses and a few brick ranch houses show continued development into the mid-twentieth century. Most buildings are wood frame, many now covered in vinyl siding, and mature pecan, oak and cedar trees shade the neighborhoods.