Haymount District

Historic district in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Haymount District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

St. Michael's Catholic Church
35°3′24″N 78°53′22″W / 35.05667°N 78.88944°W / 35.05667; -78.88944
Area	40 acres (16 ha)
Built	1817 (1817)
Built by	Vaughn, Ruffin
Architect	Hartmann, Charles; Multiple
Architectural style	Queen Anne, Colonial Revival
MPS	Fayetteville MRA
NRHP reference No.	83001856, 07000296 (Boundary Increase)^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 7, 1983, April 10, 2007 (Boundary Increase)

Haymount District, also known as Haymount Historic District, is a national historic district located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. 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 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.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, with a boundary increase in 2007.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Linda Jasperse (December 1982). "Haymount District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
^ M. Ruth Little (December 2006). "Haymount District (Boundary Increase)" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.