West Main-North Chesnutt Streets Historic District

Clinton's West Main-North Chesnutt-West Johnson Streets district holds the town's oldest residences, mostly built between the 1830s and the early 1930s on lots west and southwest of the courthouse square. Its core is the Richard Clinton Holmes House, built by 1826 with a Greek Revival addition in the mid 1830s, and a row of antebellum Greek Revival houses on North Chesnutt Street known as Yankee Row, built by newcomers from Connecticut. Alfred Johnson, a merchant who arrived in the early 1830s, is credited with introducing the Greek Revival style to Sampson County. The district is also noted for the Amma F. Johnson House of 1868, the county's only academic Victorian residence, and for St. Paul's Episcopal Church of 1902 and the L. C. Graves Presbyterian Church of 1908. Its later houses include Bungalow and Colonial Revival dwellings from the 1920s and 1930s.