--- title: "Summit Avenue Historic District – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Summit Avenue Historic District, United States: Summit Avenue Historic District, also known as the Dunleath Historic District and formally as the Charles…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/summit-avenue-historic-district" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/summit-avenue-historic-district.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Aycock_Neighborhood_Greensboro.jpg" --- United States historic place # Summit Avenue Historic District Summit Avenue Historic District, also known as the Dunleath Historic District and formally as the Charles B. ![Summit Avenue Historic District](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Aycock_Neighborhood_Greensboro.jpg) Summit Avenue Historic District · Wikimedia Commons The place Summit Avenue Historic District, also known as the Dunleath Historic District and formally as the Charles B. Aycock Historic District, is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 226 contributing buildings in a middle- and upper-class residential section of Greensboro. The houses were largely built between the 1890s and 1930s and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, American Foursquare, and Bungalow / American Craftsman-style architecture. The Sigmund Sternberger House (1926) is listed separately. Other notable buildings include the John C. Clapp House, Robert L. Potts House, William B. Vaught House, Edgar B. Jennette House, and the Charles B. Aycock School (1922) designed by Starrett & van Vleck. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Avenue_Historic_District), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Summit Avenue Historic District 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is a public, historically black, land-grant research university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System. 1 km · university · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_A%26T_State_University) 2. University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. 3 km · university · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Greensboro) 3. Greensboro College Greensboro College is a private college in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and was founded in 1838 by Rev. 2 km · college in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_College) 4. Bennett College Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. 1.6 km · historically black liberal arts college for women in North Carolina, USA · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_College) 5. Greensboro Historical Museum The Greensboro History Museum, consisting of the former First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro and Smith Memorial Building, is a historic museum building located at 130 Summit Ave. in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. 900 m · church building in North Carolina, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_History_Museum) 6. Green Hill Cemetery Green Hill Cemetery is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and it on 51 acres of rolling land. Opened in 1877, it is Greensboro's oldest publicly operated cemetery. 1.4 km · cemetery in Greensboro, North Carolina · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hill_Cemetery_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina%29) 7. First National Bank Field First National Bank Field is a Minor League Baseball park located in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The home of the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic League, it opened on April 3, 2005. 1.3 km · baseball park in Greensboro, North Carolina · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Bank_Field) 8. Jefferson Standard Building The Jefferson Standard Building is an 18-story skyscraper in Greensboro, North Carolina, completed in 1923 as the headquarters for Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., now the Lincoln Financial Group. Until it was superseded by the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem in 1927, it was the tallest building in North Carolina, with an overall height of 374 ft, succeeding the Independence Building in Charlotte. 1.3 km · skyscraper in Greensboro, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Standard_Building) 9. West Market Street United Methodist Church West Market Street United Methodist Church is a church.in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. It was constructed between 1893 and 1898; it was the third church built by the congregation. 1.4 km · church building in North Carolina, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Market_Street_United_Methodist_Church) 10. Union Cemetery Union Cemetery, also known as South Elm Street Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The cemetery for African-Americans was established in 1882. 2.7 km · cemetery in Greensboro, North Carolina · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Cemetery_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina%29) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Summit Avenue Historic District **Airports:** Piedmont Triad (GSO), 14 km · Raleigh-Durham (RDU), 92 km · Charlotte Douglas (CLT), 143 km\ **Stations:** J. Douglas Galyon Depot, 1.4 km\ - Raleigh/Durham → Summit Avenue Historic District Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/raleigh-durham-to-summit-avenue-historic-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Raleigh%2FDurham&to=Summit+Avenue+Historic+District) - Charlotte → Summit Avenue Historic District Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charlotte-to-summit-avenue-historic-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charlotte&to=Summit+Avenue+Historic+District) - Richmond → Summit Avenue Historic District Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/richmond-to-summit-avenue-historic-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Richmond&to=Summit+Avenue+Historic+District) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Summit%20Avenue%20Historic%20District) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Summit Avenue Historic District Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Summit Avenue Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 769 km 2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,284 km 3. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,111 km 4. [Caye Caulker](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caye-caulker) BZ 9 ways of moving, 42 sources 2,195 km 5. 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Around it ## Next door to Summit Avenue Historic District - [Greensboro](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/greensboro) city in North Carolina, United States of America 1.3 km - [Downtown Greensboro Historic District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/downtown-greensboro-historic-district) historic district in North Carolina, United States 1.6 km - [Fisher Park Historic District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fisher-park-historic-district) historic district in Greensboro, North Carolina 800 m [The place page for Summit Avenue Historic District](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/summit-avenue-historic-district) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United States](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-US) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/summit-avenue-historic-district, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 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