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W.C. Brown Apartment Building
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W.C. Brown Apartment Building is located in North Carolina
W.C. Brown Apartment Building
Location in North Carolina
W.C. Brown Apartment Building is located in the United States
W.C. Brown Apartment Building
Location in the United States
Location 311-317 E. 7th St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Area less than one acre
Built 1941 (1941)
Architectural style Bungalow/craftsman
MPS African-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem MPS
NRHP reference No. 98000725
Added to NRHP June 26, 1998

W.C. Brown Apartment Building was a historic apartment building located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built about 1941, and was a two-story brick-veneered rectangular block structure. It had a hipped roof and exposed rafter ends in the Bungalow / American Craftsman style. The building was built as rental apartments for African-American families just before World War II. The building housed workers at the nearby R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The building has been demolished.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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