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{{short description|Historic district in North Carolina, United States}}
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{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = Wilson Central Business–Tobacco Warehouse Historic District
| nrhp_type    = hd
| nocat        = yes
| image        = File:Wilson Municipal Building - City Hall, Wilson, North Carolina.jpg
| caption      = Wilson Municipal Building (1938) in 2019
| location     = Roughly bounded by Pender, Green, Pine, S. Jackson, and Hines Sts., [[Wilson, North Carolina]]
| coordinates  = {{coord|35|43|26|N|77|55|41|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin     = North Carolina
| architect    = Multiple
| architecture = Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian, Art Deco
| added        = December 20, 1984
| area         = {{convert|141|acre}}
| refnum       = 84003876<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}
The '''Wilson Central Business–Tobacco Warehouse District''' is a national [[historic district (United States)|historic district]] located at [[Wilson, North Carolina|Wilson]], [[Wilson County, North Carolina]].  It encompasses 152 [[contributing buildings]], 20 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the [[central business district]] of Wilson.  The district includes notable examples of [[Victorian architecture|Late Victorian]] and [[Art Deco architecture|Art Deco]] style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed [[Branch Banking (Wilson, North Carolina)|Branch Banking Building]], [[Cherry Hotel]], and [[Wilson County Courthouse (Wilson, North Carolina)|Wilson County Courthouse]].  Other notable buildings include the Woodard-Watson Warehouse, Planter's Warehouse, [[Wilson (Amtrak station)|Passenger Station and Freight Depot]] (1924), Jackson Chapel First Baptist Church (1913), St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church (1915), Imperial Tobacco Company (c. 1903, c. 1910, 1919), Winstead-Hardy Building (c. 1866), Rountree Building (1870s), Planter's Bank Building (1920), United States Post Office and Courthouse (1927), Charles L. Coon High School (1922), First National Bank of Wilson Building (1927), Wilson Theatre (1922), Odd Fellows Lodge (1896), and the [[Works Projects Administration]] financed Wilson Municipal Building (1938).<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author =Tom Butchko| title =Wilson Central Business–Tobacco Warehouse Historic District | work = National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory | date =June 1984 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WL0442.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-07-01}}</ref>
It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984.<ref name=nris/>
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==External links==
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{{National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina|state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina]]
[[Category:Victorian architecture in North Carolina]]
[[Category:Art Deco architecture in North Carolina]]
[[Category:Geography of Wilson County, North Carolina]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Wilson County, North Carolina]]
[[Category:Tobacco buildings in the United States]]
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