Pinehurst Race Track
Pinehurst Race Track | |
Nearest city | Jct. of Morgantown Rd. and NC 5, SE corner, near Pinehurst, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°10′54″N 79°27′59″W / 35.18167°N 79.46639°W |
Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
Built | 1915 |
Architectural style | Mission/spanish Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 92001628[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 27, 1992 |
Pinehurst Race Track is a historic horse racing track and national historic district located at Pinehurst in Moore County, North Carolina, USA. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 8 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure on a complex of barns, stables and other horse-related buildings and paddocks arranged around two oval-shaped race tracks. The oval-shaped race tracks are believed to have been laid out by 1915 as part of the Pinehurst Race Track established by Leonard Tufts. The Amphidrome is a large agricultural exhibition hall built about 1917. It is a 2 1/2-story, gable-roofed building with stuccoed exterior walls and massive timber roof trusses in the Mission Revival style. Other contributing resources include six paddocks (c. 1916-1920), six barns (c. 1910), harness shop (1930), farrier shop (c. 1910), clubhouse (c. 1916), the network of lanes and driveways (c. 1910), and fences (c. 1910). Pinehurst Race Track is the site of the oldest surviving early-20th century fair exhibition hall in the state.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Linda Harris Edmisten (September 1992). "Pinehurst Race Track" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
- Horse racing in the United States
- Sports venues on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Mission Revival architecture in North Carolina
- Sports venues completed in 1915
- Buildings and structures in Moore County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Moore County, North Carolina
- 1915 establishments in North Carolina
- Central North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs