West High Street Historic District

Eleven historic buildings and one garden make up this compact district of about four acres three blocks west of Main Street in central High Point, North Carolina. Built between 1879 and 1922, the group combines houses, outbuildings, a school and a factory along the North Carolina Railroad tracks. Blair School, a frame building constructed in 1879, is the oldest surviving school in the city and was later moved on its site. The 1897 Brown House is regarded as one of the finest Queen Anne houses in High Point. The Fraser-Wilson House, completed in 1905 for furniture manufacturer Henry W. Fraser, is a large Colonial Revival residence with a Palladian dormer and sixteen Ionic columns on its porch. The district is significant for its concentration of homes built by early manufacturers who lived near their factories, reflecting the walking-based downtown development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its architecture also documents the stylistic range of High Point's first furniture boom.