Salisbury Historic District (Boundary Increase I)

This extension of the Salisbury Historic District covers an irregular area a few blocks west of downtown Salisbury, North Carolina. It takes in parts of S. Church, S. Fulton, W. Thomas and W. Marsh Streets and holds 115 single- and multi-family residences, of which 18 are pivotal and 85 contributing. Most were built between about 1880 and 1940. Styles include an 1879 Italianate house, late Victorian homes with sawn decoration, Craftsman bungalows, four-squares and Colonial Revival houses, among them a row of 1927 brick four-squares built by developer Walter F. McCanless. The district shows how residential development spread between S. Main and S. Fulton Streets, with the homes of prominent citizens next to more modest rental and owner-occupied houses. The extension also includes three downtown buildings: the 1897 Fire House and City Building, the 1910 S.H. Kress Building and the ca. 1925 Star Laundry Building. They were inadvertently omitted from the original district boundaries.