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Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Gordon Street Christian Church, Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District, September 2014
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Location	Roughly N. Queen and Gordon Sts., Kinston, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°15′43″N 77°34′52″W / 35.26194°N 77.58111°W / 35.26194; -77.58111
Area	7 acres (2.8 ha)
Built	1895 (1895)
Architect	Benton & Benton; Blalock, Robert L.
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Beaux Arts, Romanesque
MPS	Kinston MPS
NRHP reference No.	89001765
Added to NRHP	November 8, 1989

Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 20 contributing buildings in a mixed commercial and industrial section of Kinston. The buildings include notable examples of Classical Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Romanesque style architecture and date between 1895 and the mid-1930s. Notable buildings include the Gordon Street Christian Church (1912-1915), (former) U. S. Post Office/Federal Building (1915), Citizens / First National Bank Building (1903), (former) Farmers and Merchants Bank (1924), Canady Building (1899), and the LaRoque and Hewitt Building (c. 1900).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Kinston Commercial Historic District is considered a boundary increase to the Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Allison H. Black (May 1989). "Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.

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