Mooresville Historic District

Mooresville's historic district covers the core of a railroad town in Iredell County, North Carolina. Its fifteen blocks hold more than eighty buildings, about three-fourths of them commercial, along with houses, a cotton seed oil mill, a church, a former post office and a ca. 1920 depot that marks the center of town. Tracks run north and south through the middle, and a small park sits in front of the depot where a cotton platform once stood. Growth came mainly between the late nineteenth century and 1925, and by then three-quarters of today's buildings were in place. The commercial blocks mix Late Victorian, Italianate, Romanesque and Renaissance Revival details, with a few later Colonial Revival and Art Deco examples. Houses range from a late Greek Revival dwelling to a Queen Anne cottage and an 1899 Gothic Revival church. Several storefronts and one hardware store interior remain largely unaltered, which supports the district's standing as the best-preserved concentration of early Mooresville.