Lyndon Street Townhouses

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Lyndon Street Townhouses
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Lyndon Street Townhouses, September 2012
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Location195-201 Lyndon St., Greensboro, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°4′16″N79°47′7″W / 36.07111°N 79.78528°W / 36.07111; -79.78528
Area0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Builtc. 1905 (1905)
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Queen Anne
MPS Greensboro MPS
NRHP reference No. 92000178 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 3, 1992

Lyndon Street Townhouses are four historic rowhouses located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, US. They were built in about 1905, and are two-story, three-bay, brick structures with Colonial Revival and Queen Anne style design elements. Each house has a polygonal bay window at the second story. The houses are united by a porch spanning their full width, supported by seven Doric order columns raised on tall brick piers. [2]

The row was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Marvin A. Brown (September 1991). "Lyndon Street Townhouses" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-12-01.