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South Main Street Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Kernersville Moravian Church, South Main Street Historic District, Kernersville NC, January 2015
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Location	100--600 blocks of S. Main St., Kernersville, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°7′15″N 80°4′27″W / 36.12083°N 80.07417°W / 36.12083; -80.07417
Area	45 acres (18 ha)
Built	1880 (1880)
Built by	Korner, Jules Gilmer
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Mid 19th Century Revival, Late Victorian
MPS	Kernersville MPS
NRHP reference No.	88000137
Added to NRHP	February 25, 1988

South Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Kernersville, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 53 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing objects in Kernersville. They include residential and commercial buildings built between about 1834 and 1930 in a variety of popular architectural styles including Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style. Located in the district is the separately listed Korner's Folly. Other notable buildings include Spears House (c. 1834), Dr. Elias Kerner House (1857), Elias Kerner Huff House (1880), Greenfield and Kerner Tobacco Factory (1884), (former) Bank of Kernersville (1903), DeWitt Harmon's Office (c. 1928), Kernersville Moravian Church (1922), and Main Street United Methodist Church (1924/25).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Gallery

• Theodore E. Kerner House, 2020
• Rephelius Byron Kerner House, 2020
• Korner's Folly, 2020

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Virginia Oswald (October 1987). "South Main Street Historic District" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.

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