West Nash Street 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

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Wilson County, North Carolina Wilson County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 78,784. The county seat is Wilson. The county comprises the Wilson Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included within ...

. It encompasses 79

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

in a predominantly residential section of Wilson. The district largely developed during the 1910s and 1920s and includes notable examples of

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 ...

style architecture. Notable buildings include the William W. Graves House, Selby Hurt· Anderson House, Williams-Cozart House, John T. Barnes House, Graham-Woodard House, M. Douglas Aycock House (1925-1928), John D. Gold House, Boykin's Filling Station, and West End Grocery. It was listed on the

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in 1984.

Notable residents

Daisy Hendley Gold Daisy Mabel Hendley Gold (October 26, 1893 – April 7, 1975) was an American writer, poet, and journalist. She worked for the ''Statesville Record & Landmark'' and '' The Greenville Piedmont'' before becoming the managing editor of the ''Wilson T ...

, American author and journalist

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Geography of Wilson County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Wilson County, North Carolina {{WilsonCountyNC-NRHP-stub