Wake Forest Historic District

Wake Forest Historic District covers roughly 246 acres at the heart of the town of Wake Forest, North Carolina. Its focus is the campus of Wake Forest College, founded in 1834 on the plantation of Dr. Calvin Jones. The campus holds large brick Colonial Revival and Classical Revival buildings put up between 1888 and the early 1950s, and it became the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1956. Around it stand faculty and staff houses along Main Street and nearby avenues, built from the late 1830s to 1946, when the college decided to move to Winston-Salem. Styles include Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival. Older landmarks include the Calvin Jones House, dating to about 1820, and the 1837 South Brick House, the only surviving original college building. The district also contains churches, school buildings and a WPA-built community house. It was recognized for its association with education and for its architecture, with a period of significance from about 1820 to 1953.