West End Historic District

West End is a linear neighborhood of houses on West Mountain and West Gold streets in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, joined by Cansler, Tracy, Watterson and Goforth streets. Its buildings date mostly from about 1900 to 1939, with the oldest, the Ware Family House, built around 1882. Four groups define its character: Queen Anne cottages and larger early twentieth-century houses mixing Queen Anne and Colonial Revival elements; remodeled turn-of-the-century cottages and bungalows; brick veneer period cottages of the 1930s; and two fully realized Colonial Revival houses, one probably designed by Louis Humbert Asbury and one designed in 1940 by Shelby architect Victor Winfred Breeze. Lots reflect the 1899 Tracy-Dixon plat, and mature trees, pecan plantings, barns, poultry houses and garages recall the semi-rural early decades. The district was listed because it preserves a cohesive residential streetscape and architectural record from about 1882 to about 1955. Of 150 resources, 101 contribute to its character, and modern alterations have been modest.