West Main Street Historic District

West Main Street Historic District is a roughly twenty-seven-acre stretch of Forest City, North Carolina, beginning two blocks west of downtown. It contains twenty-two primary resources, including the 1867 Cool Springs Cemetery, fifteen early to mid-twentieth-century houses, the 1924-1925 Cool Springs High School, the 1940 First Presbyterian Church, the 1958 Cool Springs Gymnasium, a 1964 service station and a 1965 medical office. The houses range from modest bungalows to two-story Neoclassical, Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean Revival dwellings. Most contributing buildings date from the 1920s and 1930s, a period of population growth after railroads and textile mills arrived. Subdivision of land along West Main Street and the building of the high school in 1924 encouraged new housing. The district was recognized as locally significant for its largely intact collection of residential, religious, funerary, educational and recreational buildings spanning 1867 to 1958, with about ninety percent of resources contributing.