South Aspen Street Historic District

Along the 500 to 1000 blocks of South Aspen Street in Lincolnton, a residential and institutional district of about seventy-eight resources developed from 1852 to about 1950. Its two oldest houses, the Wallace H. Alexander House and the Barrett-Hoyle House, were both built in 1852 and are among a small group of surviving mid-nineteenth-century buildings in Lincolnton. The district's growth was driven by the Lincoln Hospital, opened in 1907 by Dr. Lester A. Crowell Sr. and Dr. R. W. Petrie, and by members of the Rhodes family, who built houses around 1906 near their textile mill. The John M. Rhodes House, of rusticated concrete block, is a notable Queen Anne example. The Lincolnton High School, completed in 1924, is a Classical Revival building. Styles ranging from Greek Revival to Minimal Traditional are represented, and about 89 percent of the primary buildings contribute to the district.