North Cherry Street Historic District

North Cherry Street and several adjoining streets north of downtown Winston-Salem hold a compact neighborhood of about eighty buildings, nearly all residential, built from roughly 1925 into the early 1950s. It was once part of the larger Boston Cottages neighborhood but was cut off when University Parkway was built in the 1960s. Craftsman bungalows dominate, joined by Period Cottage, Minimal Traditional and Spanish Eclectic houses, duplexes, and small frame cottages built around 1940 for lower-income families. Six brick apartment buildings stand among them, five with the Y-shaped exterior staircase associated with African American communities in the city; fewer than eight such buildings remain citywide. A stone retaining wall from the 1925 Kimberley Park School, a surviving corner store, stone walls and mature trees give the streetscape its character. The district was listed for its role in Black ethnic heritage, community development and architecture, covering 1924 to 1954.