Salisbury Railroad Corridor Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Along the east side of North Lee Street in Salisbury, a row of brick warehouses built between 1920 and 1951 grew up beside a railroad spur that served their rear loading docks. This expansion adds eleven buildings and one vacant lot to the existing railroad corridor district, and ten of the eleven buildings count as contributing. Each was built to handle goods moved by the Southern Railway, and they have housed wholesale grocers, feed and fertilizer dealers, brokerages, an underwear factory and a Coca-Cola bottler. Most are one-story, flat-roofed, share common walls and have white-painted street fronts. Details include sixteen-light windows, stepped parapets, crenellations and corbelled cornices, with the building at 329 North Lee Street showing the most ornament. The additions fill out the district's boundary so it covers all the historic warehouse and railroad-related buildings between Lee Street and the tracks. The documentation also corrects dates for several buildings in the original district and records demolitions.