East Main Street Historic District

East Main Street Historic District is a neighborhood of about forty-two acres one block east of downtown Forest City, North Carolina. Local landowners subdivided the land in the 1910s and 1920s, and the area still follows the street pattern and approximate lot sizes shown on period plats. It holds 118 contributing and 23 noncontributing resources, nearly all of them houses with their garages and outbuildings. Most were built between about 1900 and the 1950s, with the greatest number from the 1920s and 1930s. Craftsman bungalows are common, alongside Colonial Revival, English Period Cottage, Minimal Traditional and Ranch houses. Examples include a 1939 Georgian Revival house designed by Charlotte architect Leah Range Roberts and the 1922 J. H. Thomas House, the district's only Mediterranean Revival building, built of blue granite with a green tile roof. First United Methodist Church occupies a large lot on East Main Street. The district was listed because it preserves a cohesive record of Forest City's early twentieth-century residential growth.