Downtown Burlington Historic District is a national

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located at Burlington,

Alamance County, North Carolina Alamance County (), from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved September 18, 2012. is a County (United States), county in North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 ...

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. It encompasses 40 contributing buildings in the

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of Burlington, and was added to the

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in 1990. The district includes commercial, industrial, and transportation-related buildings. The majority of the buildings are one to three-story brick commercial buildings dating to the mid-19th and early-20th centuries. Among the buildings located in the district are: *

Alamance Hotel Alamance Hotel is a historic hotel located at Burlington, North Carolina, Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann and built in 1924. It is a seven-story, brick sheathed building in the Neoclas ...

Atlantic Bank and Trust Company Building Atlantic Bank and Trust Company Building, also known as the North Carolina National Bank Building, is a historic bank building located in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann and built in ...

Efird Building Efird Building is a historic commercial building located at Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It was built in 1919, and is a three-story, Gothic Revival style building. The front facade is sheathed in white enamelled terra cotta tile ...

* Southern Railway Passenger Station *

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Other notable buildings include the former May Hosiery Mill, C. F. Neese Jewelers Building (1887), Strader Building (1913–1918), McClellan Stores Building ( 1895), Troxler-Cammack Building (1908), and Morris Plan Bank Building ( 1930).

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Art Deco architecture in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Burlington, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Alamance County, North Carolina {{AlamanceCountyNC-NRHP-stub