North Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Mocksville,

Davie County, North Carolina Davie County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,712. Its county seat is Mocksville. Davie County is included in the Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is ...

. The district encompasses 115 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in a linear residential section of Mocksville. It was developed between the 1840s and World War II and includes notable examples of

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne,

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

, Shingle Style, American Craftsman,

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

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 ...

style residential architecture. Also in the district are the First Methodist Church (1896), the Mocksville Graded School (1911), and the Masonic Picnic Grounds, established in 1883. Few of its buildings were designed by architects, but the Dr. R.P. Anderson House (1903), at 665 N. Main St., was built from mail order plans of architects Barber & Klutz of Nashville, Tennessee. 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 ...

in 1990.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Greek Revival architecture in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Tudor Revival architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Davie County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Davie County, North Carolina {{DavieCountyNC-NRHP-stub