Standard Drug No. 2

100 S. Queen St., Kinston, North Carolina. County/parish: Lenoir.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 01, 2014. NRIS 14000987.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Standard Drug No. 2

The Standard Drug No. 2 is a historic commercial building located in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built between 1918 and 1924, and is a two-story, brick Commercial Style with street level, plate-glass windows. The interior retains an Art Deco-style lunch counter and pressed metal ceiling. Sit-ins were held at the lunch counter in 1960 and 1961, to protest segregation.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

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