East Davis Street Historic District

East Davis Street Historic District is a small neighborhood of about sixteen acres just east of downtown Burlington, North Carolina. Of its fifty-eight resources, thirty-two are principal buildings, mostly houses built between the 1880s and about 1950, together with a church and a 1929 Mission style service station. Merchants, bankers, doctors and industrialists built Queen Anne houses here, among them the John R. Foster, Stafford-Moore, James Wesley Cates and John M. Fix houses. Later residents added Craftsman bungalows, including a stone house for Minter A. Coble, and a Neoclassical Revival house. Smaller dwellings housed workers from nearby textile mills. The neighborhood stayed fashionable until suburban growth after World War II, when large houses were split into apartments. Office zoning in the 1970s eroded its residential character, but newer homeowners have worked to restore it and have won a return to residential zoning. It was recognized for its architecture and its role in the town's development.