Wake Forest 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 Wake Forest,

Wake County, North Carolina Wake County, officially the County of Wake, is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 1,129,410, making it North Carolina's List of coun ...

. The district encompasses 245 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and five contributing structures built between about 1890 and 1953 and located in the historic core of the town of Wake Forest. It includes 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, ...

and Federal style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed

Lea Laboratory Lea Laboratory is a historic laboratory building located on the original campus of Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University) at Wake Forest, North Carolina. It was designed by noted Baltimore architect John Appleton Wilson (1851–1927) ...

, South Brick House, and the Powell-White House, a contributing resource in the Glen Royall Mill Village Historic District. Other notable buildings include the historic campus of

Wake Forest College Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private university, private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, North Carolina, Wake ...

, Wake Forest Baptist Church (1913), Magnolia Hill (1928), Calvin Jones House (''circa'' 1820), John M. Brewer House (''circa'' 1860), Wait-Taylor House (1843), Taylor-Purefoy-Poteat-Swett House (''circa'' 1840), Community House (''circa'' 1942), St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church (now Hope Lutheran Church, ''circa'' 1940), the Powers Store (1897), and former Water and Light Building (1909). The district 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 2003.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Greek Revival architecture in North Carolina Geography of Wake County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Wake County, North Carolina {{WakeCountyNC-NRHP-stub