Washington Park Historc District

Washington Park is a planned residential neighborhood of about twenty-five blocks on a ridge overlooking Salem Creek, south of the central business district of Winston-Salem. Jacob Lott Ludlow drew its plat in 1891, and the streets were recorded in March 1892, with a park of about seventy-five acres at its core. Developed largely between the 1890s and World War II, the neighborhood was served by a streetcar line on Main Street and Cascade Avenue that began running in 1890. Its houses include Victorian, Queen Anne, Shingle, Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Moravian Revival and Tudor Revival examples, with most of the houses built in the 1910s and 1920s. The large houses of prosperous businessmen on the first three blocks of Cascade Avenue anchor the district. Its stone walls and steps, tree-lined streets and original alley system remain largely intact, and the neighborhood is regarded as a representative example of an early twentieth-century streetcar suburb in North Carolina.