A. E. Taplin Apartment Building | |
Location | 408 W. Parkway Ave., High Point, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°58′3″N80°1′11″W / 35.96750°N 80.01972°W |
Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
Built | 1920 |
Architectural style | Mission/spanish Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 96000196 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 1, 1996 |
A. E. Taplin Apartment Building is a historic apartment building located at High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was built in 1920, and is a three-story, stuccoed frame Mission Revival style building housing five apartments. It has a low hipped roof, a pair of arched entry doors within a semi-circular arch, and a second-level balcony of black wrought iron. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1] It is located in the Uptown Suburbs Historic District.
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