Nashville Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located at

Nashville Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

Nash County, North Carolina Nash County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 94,970. Its county seat is Nashville. Nash County is part of the Rocky Mount, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The area ...

. It encompasses 142 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures in the rural county seat of Nashville. The buildings primarily date between 1890 and 1930, and include notable examples of

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

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

, 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 arch ...

, and

Classical Revival Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassic ...

style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Bissette-Cooley House and Nash County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the Graphic Building (c. 1910), Baldy Batchelor Livery Stable (c. 1900), Weldon's Department Store (1913), Ricks-Strickland House (1890s), Squire Harper House (1868), two metal-veneered "

Lustron house Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Lustron Corporation and Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund ...

s," Neville-Strickland House (1907), Primitive Baptist Church, First Methodist Church (1923), and former Baptist Church. It was listed on the

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in 1988.

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