South Boston Historic District

South Boston's historic district takes in much of the city along the Dan River and the railway. Its southwestern part holds brick tobacco warehouses and prizeries, a railroad depot, the 1897 Century Cotton Mill (later Halifax Cotton Mill) and forty-eight company houses built around 1900 on a hill above it. Downtown, the 100-400 blocks of South Main Street and nearby streets are lined with mostly two-story brick commercial buildings, including the 1888 E.L. Evans Building, the 1891 Planters and Merchants Bank, the circa 1910 Municipal Building with its arcaded belfry, and the 1918 Neoclassical bank at Ferry Street and Wilborn Avenue. North and east of downtown lies a residential area, with Italianate and Queen Anne houses along North Main Street and Washington Avenue, plus many vernacular houses. Churches and a 1909 hospital are also included. The district contains 432 contributing buildings, 3 contributing structures and 72 noncontributing buildings.