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Downtown Gastonia Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Second Gaston County Courthouse, 2011
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Location	Roughly bounded by Main Ave., Broad St., Second Ave., and Chester St., Gastonia, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°15′41″N 81°10′56″W / 35.26139°N 81.18222°W / 35.26139; -81.18222
Area	46 acres (19 ha)
Built	1910 (1910)
Architect	White, Hugh E.; Milburn & Hester
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	03001375
Added to NRHP	January 6, 2004

Downtown Gastonia Historic District is a national historic district located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Gastonia. The commercial, civic, institutional, and multi-unit residential buildings were built between the 1890s and 1954, and include notable examples of Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed former Gaston County Courthouse, First National Bank Building, Third National Bank Building, and Robinson-Gardner Building. Other notable buildings include the U.S. Post Office (1935), York Medical Building (1938), Kress Department Store, Leibowitz Department Store (c. 1910), Ideal Moving Picture Theater (c. 1912), City Hall, Kirby Building (1922), First Baptist Church (1922), Gaston County War Memorial Hall (1928), and the (former) Gaston County Public Library (1930).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Gallery

• Nick's Steak & Seafood in the former Webb Theater, 2014
• Third National Bank, 2014
• Robinson-Gardner Building, 2014
• First National Bank Building, 2014

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Jeffrey Shrimpton (September 2002). "Downtown Gastonia Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.

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