Sunset Hills Historic District

Sunset Hills is a residential district of about 280 acres west of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, laid out by the A. K. Moore Realty Company beginning in the mid-1920s. Its streets were platted in late 1926 on a grid with some curving roads, and a thirteen-acre park runs along a stream near the center. Most of the houses are brick, and the district contains a wide range of forms, with Colonial Revival houses being the most common, followed by Period Cottages and Craftsman bungalows. Lorenzo S. Winslow worked on many of the early designs through the company's Better Built Homes service. Its significance lies in planned suburban development before the Great Depression, when the developer's company went bankrupt in 1934, and in its concentration of domestic architecture from the 1920s through the 1960s. The district retains many mature trees, historic garages, and stone and brick retaining walls.