Richardson Houses 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 Reidsville,

Rockingham County, North Carolina Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,096. Its county seat is Wentworth. The county is known as "North Carolina's North Star." Rockingham County is included in ...

. It encompasses 17 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in a residential section of Reidsville. It was developed between about 1840 and 1912, and includes notable examples of

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 R ...

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 ...

, and

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 ...

style architecture. The three principal buildings in the district are the Robert Payne Richardson House I (c. 1842), the Robert Payne Richardson House II, North Belmont (c. 1860), and the Robert Payne Richardson House III, Belmont (1912). 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 v ...

in 1986.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Houses in Rockingham County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina 1986 establishments in North Carolina {{RockinghamCountyNC-NRHP-stub