Old South Mebane Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Old South Mebane is a compact residential district of about 103 acres lying just south of the downtown core of Mebane, North Carolina. Its grid of streets holds 255 contributing resources, most of them wood-frame houses of one and one-half to two stories, many with brick veneer. The houses were built mainly between about 1900 and 1961 and show the range of styles popular nationally during that span, interpreted locally. Notable examples include a ca. 1900 Queen Anne house at 413 South Fifth Street with a semi-hexagonal corner tower, and a ca. 1920 Dutch Colonial Revival house at 500 South Fifth Street. Craftsman bungalows, Cape Cods, Period Cottages and Minimal Traditional houses also appear throughout. Churches include the 1914 Mebane Presbyterian Church, a Gothic Revival building. The district is significant as a dense, largely intact example of the town's early twentieth-century residential growth.