Pee Dee Avenue Historic District

Pee Dee Avenue runs about nine blocks through east central Albemarle, the Stanly County seat, and the whole length of the street forms a residential historic district. Houses were added gradually from about 1891 to 1947, so lot sizes and styles vary. The earliest survivors are large two-story Queen Anne frame houses. They are joined by Bungalows and, from the 1920s and early 1930s, many brick Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival houses and one-story Period Cottages with decorative brickwork and red terra cotta tile roofs. Contractor David Augustus Holbrook built many of the cottages, including his own home. Other resources include Christ Church, a Late Gothic stone church of 1939-1940, and Albemarle Cemetery. Most houses have stayed single-family and owner-occupied, which has kept the buildings well maintained and largely intact. The district is considered locally significant as the city's most distinguished residential avenue.