Craver Apartment Building

706-712 Chestnut St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina. County/parish: Forsyth.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 26, 1998. NRIS 98000726.

Part of African-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem MPS (NRIS 64500350).

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Craver Apartment Building

Craver Apartment Building is a historic apartment building located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built about 1942, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick-veneered rectangular block structure with hipped roof and exposed rafter ends. It has a hipped roof and exposed rafter ends in the Bungalow / American Craftsman style. It features porches on both levels supported by full-height square brick posts. The building was built as rental apartments for African-American families just before World War II.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717825