Spread Out Historic District

Northeast of downtown Waynesville, the Spread Out Historic District is a residential neighborhood of about ninety-five resources laid out between North Main and Walnut streets, with Boundary, Hazel and Maple streets extending east. Its houses were built mainly in the first quarter of the twentieth century, beginning with a few two-story frame houses on Boundary Street in the mid-1890s. The district includes substantial Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Queen Anne dwellings alongside bungalows, Period Cottages and Minimal Traditional houses. The Gothic and Mission Revival Presbyterian church, dedicated in February 1907, anchors the north end of Main Street. The district is regarded as significant for its architecture because it preserves a concentration of the styles common in Waynesville from the 1890s through the post-World War II years, with a number of contributing buildings retaining historic integrity.