West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District

West Davis Street and West Front Street in Burlington, North Carolina, form a tree-lined neighborhood of about 160 principal buildings, mostly houses built between the late 1800s and the 1930s for the city's growing middle class. Broad avenues shaded by tall hardwoods carry large Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes on spacious lots, such as the 1894 Dr. T. W. Patterson House and the 1902 Dr. Thomas S. Faucette House. Later Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival and Mediterranean-style houses appear toward the west end, while Foursquares and bungalows fill in throughout. Fountain Place, a 1920s subdivision, is centered on a landscaped fountain and marked by stone pillars and low stone walls at its entrance. Churches occupy large tracts at the east end. The district was listed because it is the best surviving concentration of Burlington's residential architecture from this period, showing how styles and lot patterns changed as the neighborhood spread westward.