Belmont Historic District is a national historic district located at Belmont,

Gaston County, North Carolina Gaston County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 227,943. The county seat is Gastonia. Dallas served as the original county seat from 1846 until 1911. Gaston County is included in t ...

. It encompasses 264 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and adjacent residential areas of Belmont. The district was developed after 1873, and includes notable examples of

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...

, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed U.S. Post Office, Former. Other notable buildings include the R.L. Stowe Mills Office Building, Bank of Belmont (1926), Piedmont and Northern Railroad Depot (c. 1915), Belmont Hotel (c. 1907), Abel C. Lineberger House No. 2 (c. 1919) designed by Charles Christian Hook (1870–1938), Samuel Pinckney Stowe House (c. 1919), James W. Stowe House (c. 1910), Sacred Heart College, and Belmont High School (1939). It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1996.

Gallery

File:P&N Railway Station - Belmont, NC.jpg, P&N Railway Station File:Old US Post Office - Belmont, NC.jpg, Old U.S. Post Office, now Belmont City Hall File:Historic Downtown Belmont (left side of street) 9-20-2014.jpg, Historic Downtown Belmont (left side of street) File:Historic Downtown Belmont (right side of street) - 9-20-2014.jpg, Historic Downtown Belmont (right side of street)

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Tudor Revival architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Gaston County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Gaston County, North Carolina {{GastonCountyNC-NRHP-stub