Fulton Heights Historic District

Fulton Heights is a residential district of about a few hundred early twentieth-century houses on grid streets roughly a mile south of downtown Salisbury, North Carolina. The Southern Development Company laid it out beginning in 1902, and in 1904 the streetcar line was extended west along Mitchell Avenue to serve it. Deep, narrow fifty-foot lots, rear service alleys and a small amusement park, which operated from 1906 until 1918, were part of the original plan. The houses span the period from 1903 through the 1940s and range from Queen Anne cottages and Colonial Revival houses to Craftsman bungalows, Tudor Revival cottages and Prairie School four-squares. Institutional landmarks include the 1913 Second Reformed Presbyterian Church, the 1939 First Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church and the 1916 Calvin H. Wiley School. The district is significant for its intact planning and its range of residential architecture from Salisbury's growth period, including houses by known architects such as Percy Bloxam and Frank Joseph Forster.