West End Village 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 Kings Mountain,

Cleveland County, North Carolina Cleveland County is a county located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the western Piedmont, on the southern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 99,519. Its county seat is Shelb ...

. It encompasses 100 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a residential section of Kings Mountain. The houses date between about 1882 and 1955, and include representative examples of Queen Anne,

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 archi ...

, and

Bungalow A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a b ...

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 ...

architectural styles. 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 2009.

Gallery

File:Dr. William Lee Ramseur House.jpg, Dr. William Lee Ramseur House File:Willeford Family House.jpg, Willeford Family House

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Kings Mountain, North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Cleveland County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland County, North Carolina {{ClevelandCountyNC-NRHP-stub