Dickinson Avenue Historic District

Dickinson Avenue Historic District covers the 600-900 blocks of a diagonal commercial street in Greenville, North Carolina, along with one block of adjoining side streets and a CSX railroad right-of-way. Most of its 45 resources are one- and two-story brick commercial buildings in the early twentieth-century Commercial Style. The district also includes a Classical Revival church, a movie theater, a tobacco warehouse, a remnant of railroad track, and remains of the Imperial Tobacco Company factory. During the 1910s and 1920s, the central business district spread along Dickinson Avenue toward the railroad tracks and replaced earlier houses with stores, garages, bottling plants, and warehouses. Many lower storefronts have been modernized, and demolitions have left vacant lots, yet the upper facades, streetscape, and much architectural detail survive from the period of significance, about 1902 to 1956. Thirty-five buildings and three structures contribute to its historic character.