Thomasville Downtown Historic District

Brick commercial blocks line both sides of the Town Common in Thomasville, a railroad and furniture town in the Piedmont of North Carolina. The district covers about twenty-seven acres and holds seventy-nine resources, mostly one- and two-story brick storefronts. Its core dates from rebuilding after a series of fires around 1890 to 1902, when brick replaced frame construction. The 1871 frame passenger depot, which remains on its railroad-side site, is the oldest building in the district and a rare survivor of North Carolina's nineteenth-century frame depots. The district is also significant for its furniture industry, including the Lambeth Furniture Company, and for civic buildings: the 1926 Colonial Revival post office, the 1938 Art Deco former City Hall and the 1957 former county office building. Together they document commerce, government and architecture from the town's founding through the mid-twentieth century.