Downtown Spruce Pine Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at Spruce Pine,

Mitchell County, North Carolina Mitchell County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 14,903. Its county seat is Bakersville, North Carolina, Bakersville, population ...

. The district encompasses 33 contributing buildings in the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

of Spruce Pine. It was developed between 1909 and 1953, and includes notable examples of Early Commercial and

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 ...

style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed

Gunter Building Gunter Building is a historic commercial building located at Spruce Pine in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. It was built about 1941, and is a two-story, three bay by four bay, building constructed of river-tumbled micaceous bioti ...

. Other notable buildings include the Spruce Pine Depot (1909), Crystal Place (1937), (former) Town Hall (1940), and Day's Drug Store (1950). It was added to 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 v ...

in 2003.

Gallery

File:Spruce Pine Depot.jpg, Spruce Pine Depot File:Downtown Spruce Pine NC.jpg, Downtown Spruce Pine NC, 2007

References

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