Roughly bounded by W. North St., Seaboard Coastline RR, W. Main St., S. and N. Mitchell Sts., Ahoskie, North Carolina. County/parish: Hertford.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 25, 1985. NRIS 85000906.
14 contributing buildings.
Ahoskie Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings in the central business district of Ahoskie. The commercial and governmental buildings include notable examples of Classical Revival and Colonial Revival architecture dated between 1901 and the late 1930s. Notable buildings include the (former) United States Post Office (1940), Garrett Hotel (1926), W. D. Newsome Building (c. 1905), Hotel Comfort (1907), Mitchell Hotel (c. 1910), Hertford Herald building (c. 1915), Bank of Ahoskie (1925-1926), Sawyer~Browne Furniture Company (1924), Richard Theater (1927), and E. L. Garrett Building (1938).
The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was incorporated into the Ahoskie Historic District in 2012.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720863