Valle Crucis 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 Valle Crucis, Watauga County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 50 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 7 contributing structures in the

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and surrounding residential sections of Valle Crucis. It developed between about 1812 and 1954, and includes notable examples of

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

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, and Colonial Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Mast General Store,

Mast Farm The Mast Farm is a historic farm located near Valle Crucis, Watauga County, North Carolina and is now the Mast Farm Inn. In the late 1700s, Joseph Mast walked from Pennsylvania and settled on much of the land that is now Valle Crucis. Around 181 ...

, and Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission. Other notable contributing buildings are the Baird Farm (c. 1860, c. 1872), Lucy Mast Olsen House (1936-1940), Taylor tobacco barn, Farthing Store (1909), Valle Crucis Bank (1914), Hard Taylor House (c. 1855, 1895), and C. D. "Squire" Taylor House (1911). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Gallery

File:Mast General Store.jpg, Mast General Store, 2017 File:(former) Valle Crucis Academy.jpg, (former) Valle Crucis Academy, 2017 File:David F. Baird House.jpg, David F. Baird House, 2017 File:David F. Baird Barn.jpg, David F. Baird Barn, 2017 File:Farthing Store.jpg, Farthing Store, 2017 File:Hard Taylor House.jpg, Hard Taylor House, 2017 File:W.H. & Mollie Mast House (Willow House).jpg, W.H. & Mollie Mast House (Willow House), 2017 File:W.W. Mast House.jpg, W.W. Mast House, 2017

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Watauga County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Watauga County, North Carolina {{WataugaCountyNC-NRHP-stub