Irving Park Historic District

Historic district in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Irving Park Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

House on Sunset Drive
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Location	Roughly bounded by Buffalo Cr., Battleground Ave., Cornwallis Dr. and W. Northwood St., Greensboro, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°05′47″N 79°47′54″W / 36.09639°N 79.79833°W / 36.09639; -79.79833
Area	145 acres (59 ha)
Built	1911 (1911)-1930s
Architect	John Nolen, et al.
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival
MPS	Greensboro MPS
NRHP reference No.	94001050
Added to NRHP	February 21, 1995

Irving Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 164 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in an affluent planned suburb of Greensboro. It developed around the Greensboro Country Club. The houses were largely built between 1911 and the 1930s and include notable examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Classical Revival-style architecture. Notable buildings include the first Robert Jesse Mebane House, the Cummins A. Mebane House, the Lynn Williamson House, the first J. Spencer Love House, the Aubrey L. Brooks House, Carl I. Carlson House, the Van Wyck Williams House, the Lavlson L. Simmons House, the Albert J. Klutz House, the Irving Park Manor Apartments, McAdoo-Sanders-Tatum House, the Alfred M. Scales House, and the Herman Cone House.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Notable residents

Joseph M. Bryan, insurance executive and philanthropist
Kathleen Price Bryan, philanthropist and founder of the Junior League of Greensboro
Nancy Bryan Faircloth, philanthropist and Chairwoman of the North Carolina Symphony
Louis DeJoy, businessman and 75th United States Postmaster General
Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to Finland
Aldona Wos, former U.S. Ambassador to Estonia

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
Laura A. W. Phillips (April 1994). "Irving Park Historic District" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
"Media company CEO puts her N.C. home on the market for $7.5 million". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved February 14, 2022.

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