Mebane Commercial 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

Mebane Mebane is a city located mostly in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, and partly in Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County. The town was named for Alexander Mebane, an American Revolutionary War general and member of the Unite ...

, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 30 contributing buildings, and 1 contributing structure 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 Mebane. The district includes one and two-part commercial blocks of one to three stories in height, executed in the Colonial Revival and Neo-Classical styles. The earliest buildings date to about 1905. Notable buildings include two former banks (c. 1910, c. 1919), the Five Star Building (c. 1910), Mebane Enterprise Building (c. 1940), and Jones Department Store Building (c. 1910). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Historic districts in Alamance County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina {{AlamanceCountyNC-NRHP-stub