Reidsville’s two historic districts are special in that they are examples of domestic architecture and city planning from just prior to the turn of the previous century up to the beginning of the Second World War.

              They reflect the styles of the time, ranging from Queen Anne to the popular foursquare and Craftsman bungalow structures, as well as the prosperity of Reidsville’s days as an important tobacco products producing center.

              The two walking tours outlined below, one on South Main Street and the other centered on Maple Avenue, do not cover the full extent of the historic districts. These tours start near the Annie Penn Memorial Hospital and are designed to provide a sampling of the districts in a short (Main Street Tour) or longer (Maple Avenue Tour) route.

              Noted for each house in the tour are its address, architectural style, date of construction and, where possible, the name of the original builder or owner as well as his occupation enclosed in brackets.

              The documentation for this information comes from the 1986 Survey of the Reidsville Historic District, prepared by Mrs. Allison Harris Black, Architectural Historian, of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Maple Avenue Walking Tour

Starting from the corner of Maple Avenue and Piedmont Street

502 Maple Avenue ………. Thomas Littleton “Lytt” Gardner House; Unique diagonal entrance door c. 1912 [pharmacist]

413 Maple Avenue ……....    Gable front cottage

414 Maple Avenue ………    Tullock-Jones House; Many gabled carpenter gothic 1890 [merchant]

410 Maple Avenue ………    C.L. Tesh House; Gothic Revival steep gable and rondel c. 1900 [jeweler]

409 Maple Avenue ………    E.H. Wrenn House; Craftsman bungalow with exposed rafters c. 1929 [manager of Rockingham Investment Company]

408 Maple Avenue ………    Carolina cottage (yellow) c. 1910

405 Maple Avenue ………    A.H. Gwyn House; bungalow c. 1925 [attorney and judge]

423 Piedmont Street ……    Steep gabled carpenter gothic

Cross Piedmont Street

422 Piedmont Street ……    James Trotter House; Carolina cottage c. 1895 [bookkeeper]

503 Piedmont Street ……    Modified foursquare with porches 1918

504 Piedmont Street ……    R.T. Burton House; Brick foursquare c. 1917 [businessman]

333 Maple Avenue ………    Moses Leinwand House; Colonial Revival 1934 [department store owner]

331 Maple Avenue ………    Dr. Jett House; Modified bungalow 1918 [physician]

327 Maple Avenue ………    Manton Oliver House; I-form Carolina farmhouse 1905 [Reidsville Review publisher]

325 Maple Avenue ………    Lindsay J. Perry House; bungalow with Tudor half-timbering 1936 [school superintendent]

323 Maple Avenue ………    W.J. Irvin Jr. House; “Airplane” bungalow 1929 [businessman]

324 Maple Avenue ………    Penn House; Colonial Revival with columned portico c. 1931. Original house Prairie style 1915. Gazebo 1915. Mr. Penn, [owner of Penn Tobacco Company], promoted Lucky Strike cigarette brand.

319 Maple Avenue ………    Eugene Irvin House; Foursquare [bank cashier]

317 Maple Avenue ………    Craftsman bungalow with front t-gable 1920

315 Maple Avenue ………    Temple-front (dark blue) c. 1900

311-313 Maple Avenue …   S.F. Terry House; Temple-front 1909 [architect]

312 Maple Avenue ………    Humphreys House; large bungalow-style 1917 [attorney and judge]

310 Maple Avenue ………    J.E. Meador House; colonial revival cottage with iron fence c. 1934

309 Maple Avenue ………    Dr. J.R. Meador House; I-form with stone benches 1920 [dentist]

308 Maple Avenue ……...     Wilkinson House; Bungalow 1916 (Three doors indicate it was used early as a boarding house)

307 Maple Avenue ……..l.    King House; Foursquare 1925

306 Maple Avenue ………    Percy L. Osborne House; bungalow w/craftsman rafter ends 1922 [insurance agent]

305 Maple Avenue ………    Jesse Claybrook House; Prairie School with wide eaves 1929

304 Maple Avenue ………    Gable front bungalow 1920

302 Maple Avenue ………    R.T. King House; Temple front w/Queen Anne trim c. 1909 [tailor]

Turn right on Lindsey Street

323 Lindsey Street ……..     Mills-Knight House; Colonial revival with Tuscan columns c. 1905

326 Lindsey Street ……..     Temple front farmhouse c. 1900

East Side

633 S. Main Street ….….      Pipkin House; Italianate with Regency gallery Charleston-style 1936 [owner and manager of Edna Cotton Mills]

701 S. Main Street ……..      Fillman House; brick Carolina farm house with Victorian east-iron fence c. 1875 [farmer]

705 S. Main Street ……..      Watt-DeGrotte House; Colonial revival (Georgian) 1929 [banker]

709 S. Main Street ……..      Walters House; Italianate w/double porches and two bays 1880

803 S. Main Street ……..      Col. Andrew J. Boyd House, Italianate with square tower 1885 [attorney]

809 S. Main Street ……..      B.C. Trotter House; foursquare w/diamond top sashes 1920 [attorney]

813 S. Main Street ……..      Craftsman bungalow 1920 [bank bookkeeper]

815 S. Main Street ……..      McCargo-Burton House; Georgian Revival 1929 [attorney]

901 S. Main Street ……..      Calvin Scales House; Carolina cottage c. 1910 [soda bottling worker]

West Side

……………………………      Melrose; Hugh Reid Scott House (nephew of Governor David Settle Reid), Neo-classical with Ionic portico and porte-cochere 1909-10 [attorney]

722 S. Main Street …….       Dr. William Hester House; brick Tudor revival 1935 [physician]

718 S. Main Street …….       Thomas Smothers House; Tudor revival 1935 [warehouse owner]

714-716 S. Main St. …..        Wray-Webster House; Italianate with Queen Anne trim (one of the oldest houses surviving in the Historic District, moved from Melrose site) 1860 [postmaster]

712 S. Main Street …….       Foursquare with Tuscan columns 1915

710 S. Main Street …….       Foursquare c. 1920

708 S. Main Street …….       Foursquare Colonial Revival 1920

704 S. Main Street …….       Foursquare Colonial Revival 1910

This information was compiled by the

Reidsville Historic Preservation Commission and is available in brochure form at Reidsville City Hall, 230 W. Morehead Street.