Waughtown-Belview Historic District

Waughtown-Belview is a residential district southeast of downtown Winston-Salem, just east of U.S. 52. It spans about eighteen blocks along Waughtown and Sprague streets, and includes more than 1,100 contributing resources, about 1,050 of them houses. Waughtown Street began as a Native American trading route and served as the Plank Road to Fayetteville by the early nineteenth century. Few antebellum houses survive, the oldest believed to date from about 1825. Most buildings are later: frame cottages with modest Queen Anne details from about 1890 to 1915, more than 300 Craftsman bungalows, a smaller number of Colonial Revival houses, and Period Cottages from about 1940 into the early 1950s. Platted developments such as Carlton Bluff, Longview and the Wachovia Development Company plat shaped much of the street grid. Common alterations include vinyl or asbestos siding and replacement windows. The district also contains churches, stores, a cemetery and the industrial associations of wagon works.