Depot Historic District

SE end Depot St., bounded on S by Southern RR tracks, and 111 Railroad St. S of tracks, Marion, North Carolina. County/parish: McDowell.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 28, 1991. NRIS 91000293.

Part of Downtown Marion MPS (NRIS 64500356).

5 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Depot Historic District (Marion, North Carolina)

Depot Historic District is a national historic district located at Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina. The district encompasses five contributing buildings associated with the Southern Railway depot at Marion. The buildings date from about 1894 to about 1935. They are a commercial building (c. 1913), four-story former Buffaloe Building (c. 1908), commercial building (1911), Laughridge Furniture Company Building (c. 1894), and freight depot (c. 1935).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718209