North Long Street-Park Avenue Historic District

Frame houses lining the 400 and 500 blocks of N. Long Street and the 400 to 600 blocks of Park Avenue in east Salisbury make up this residential district, built mostly between 1891 and the mid-1920s. The Central Land Company, organized by local businessmen including John S. Henderson, Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless and J. Samuel McCubbins, bought about 255 acres from Edwin Shaver in 1891 and began selling lots. Early houses along Park Avenue were large and elaborate, while later houses were smaller rental and middle-income homes for clerks, salesmen and railroad workers. The growth followed the Kesler Manufacturing Company mill of 1895 and Southern Railway's repair shops at nearby Spencer. The district is significant for its mix of late Victorian, turn-of-the-century and Bungalow domestic architecture, and for documenting how a prosperous neighborhood became a socially mixed one.