Mount Airy 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 Mount Airy,

Surry County, North Carolina Surry County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 71,359. Its county seat is Dobson, and its largest city is Mount Airy. Surry county comprises the Mount Airy, NC Micropolitan St ...

. The district encompasses 187 contributing buildings in the

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and surrounding industrial and residential sections of Mount Airy. They were primarily built between about 1880 and 1930 and include notable examples of

Late Victorian Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ''Victorian'' refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian we ...

and

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American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its ...

architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed

W. F. Carter House W. F. Carter House, also known as the Carter House, is a historic home located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. It was built about 1908, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style frame dwelling. It features a central two-story Io ...

and Trinity Episcopal Church. Other notable buildings include the Abram Haywood Merritt House (1902), William A. Estes House (c. 1875), Thomas Fawcett House (c. 1895), J. D. Sargent House (1919), Campbell A. Baird House (1913), T. Benton Ashby House (c. 1912), First Baptist Church (1906-1912), Mount Airy Friends (1904), Presbyterian Church (1907-1914), Merritt Building (c. 1905-1910), Banner Building (1906), Prather Block (c. 1892), Midkiff Hardware Store (c. 1910), Welch Block (c. 1890), West Drug Store (c. 1895), Belk's Building (c. 1890), (former) Workman's Federal Savings and Loan (c. 1891), (former) First National Bank (1893), Bank of Mount Airy (1923), U.S. Post Office (1932-1933), and the Sparger Brothers Tobacco Factory. It was added to the

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in 1985, with a boundary increase in 2012, and a boundary decrease in 2021.

Gallery

File:United States Post Office - Mount Airy.jpg, United States Post Office, 2020 File:Trinity Episcopal Church - Mount Airy.jpg, Trinity Episcopal Church, 2020 File:North Main Street Buildings 03.jpg, N. Main Street Buildings, 2020 File:North Main Street Buildings 02.jpg, N. Main Street Buildings, 2020 File:North Main Street Buidings 01.jpg, N. Main Street Buildings, 2020 File:Merritt Building.jpg, Merritt Building, 2020 File:Former First National Bank.jpg, Former First National Bank, 2020 File:Earle Theater.jpg, Earle Theater, 2020 File:Bank of Mount Airy.jpg, Bank of Mount Airy, 2020

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Greek Revival architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Surry County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Surry County, North Carolina Mount Airy, North Carolina {{SurryCountyNC-NRHP-stub