Star Historic District

The story

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The Star Historic District is a historic district in Star, Montgomery County, roughly bounded by College, 1st and Dameron streets, listed in the National Register in 2013. Its buildings mostly went up between 1896 and 1963, in styles that include Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Art Deco.

Why it's listed

The district was listed under criteria A, B, C and D, with local-level significance in commerce, architecture and transportation. Its period of significance runs from 1896 to 1963, matching the years the nomination describes as its period of active development.

Physical character

Most houses are frame, with weatherboard walls on brick pier foundations, while commercial buildings have brick veneer walls under standing-seam metal or pressed-tin roofs. Windows range from one-over-one to Craftsman-style three-over-one and four-over-one sash, and porches carry turned posts and balusters or slender columns on brick piers.

Historical context

The Durham and Charlotte Railroad laid a line through Star in 1896, and the town was incorporated in 1897. Angus Leach completed the Bank of Star in 1910, and the Bonkemeyer Store Building followed c. 1915, along with the Shamburger-Monroe Building c. 1919. Star Lumber and Manufacturing Company was founded in 1906 by J. B. Shamburger, and hosiery mills followed, including Pine Hosiery Mills in 1933. The Clayson Knitting Company, renamed by 1938, closed in 2008 as the mills declined under the 1994 North American and 2004 Central America Free Trade Agreements.