Southern Pines Historic District

Southern Pines Historic District covers roughly 320 acres of the original town in the Sandhills of Moore County, North Carolina. The Seaboard Railway runs through its center, with a downtown of frame and brick commercial buildings on both sides of the tracks. Street patterns combine an early square grid with curving roads in the Weymouth Heights subdivisions to the south. The district contains buildings from 1883 to 1941, including small Queen Anne cottages, many wood-shingled Craftsman bungalows, and a large group of Colonial Revival houses. Large English and Norman Cottage style houses, mostly by Aymar Embury II and Alfred Yeomans, cluster at the south end. Embury also designed downtown buildings, among them the Citizens Bank and Trust Building, the 1937 Post Office and the 1939 Library. Churches, garages and other outbuildings add to the fabric. The district counts 495 contributing and 183 noncontributing resources, set among pines, magnolias and hollies planted in the early twentieth century.