North Main Street Historic District

North Main Street in Salisbury, North Carolina, is lined with houses built mainly between 1900 and 1930 for a mix of residents. The southern blocks, between the railroad tracks and Henderson School, were first home to merchants, businessmen and other middle class citizens, and hold the more elaborate late Victorian and Colonial Revival dwellings. The northern blocks toward Spencer housed railroad workers employed at the Spencer Shops, and contain modest bungalows and small Victorian cottages. Many houses sit on terraced lawns, and local stone appears in walls, foundations and porches. The district has no single architectural theme. Instead, Victorian, Colonial Revival and Bungalow influences often blend within one house, and some bungalows are reported to have been built from Sears catalogue plans. A streetcar barn, small brick stores, a Methodist church site and the neo-classical Henderson School also shaped the street's growth. Despite lost buildings and some altered ones, it is the one surviving neighborhood of its kind in the city.