Snow Hill Historic District

Snow Hill's historic core is a district of roughly twenty blocks along Greene Street, on a ridge above Contentnea Creek and Long Branch in Greene County, North Carolina. It includes a three-block commercial strip, the 1935 Colonial Revival courthouse built with Works Progress Administration funds, and the oldest dwellings of the town to the south. Houses range from mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival and a Gothic Revival cottage to Italianate, Stick Style, Queen Anne, Neoclassical and many Craftsman bungalows. Most homes date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the tobacco industry and a railroad from Kinston brought growth and a more commercial village economy. Churches in Revival styles and a few unusual designs, such as a Spanish Mission house, add variety. Of 303 resources, 192 contribute to the district's character. Its period of significance runs from about 1850 to 1945, and it is recognized for community development and architecture as a small county seat that has changed little since 1950.