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Haymount District, also known as Haymount 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
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Cumberland County, North Carolina Cumberland County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 334,728, making it the List of counties in North Carolina, fifth-most populo ...
. It encompasses 60 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a primarily residential section of Fayetteville. The dwellings were built between about 1817 and 1950, and include notable examples of Queen Anne and
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 ...
style architecture. The earliest extant residence is the Robert Strange Town House (c. 1817), home of Senator Robert Strange (1796-1854). Another notable building is the Highsmith Memorial Hospital, designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann and completed in 1926. Also located in the district is the separately listed Edgar Allan Poe House. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1983, with a boundary increase in 2007.


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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Fayetteville, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, North Carolina {{CumberlandCountyNC-NRHP-stub