Summit Avenue Historic District

{{short description|United States historic place}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Summit Avenue Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd

| nocat = yes

| image = Aycock Neighborhood Greensboro.jpg

| caption = Summit Avenue Historic District, June 2007

| location = Roughly bounded by Chestnut, E. Bessemer, Cypress, Dewey, Park, and Percy Sts., Greensboro, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|36|04|54|N|79|46|55|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| built = {{Start date|1895}}

| architect = Barton, Harry; Starrett and Van Vleck

| architecture = Queen Anne, Bungalow/craftsman, Foursquare

| added = August 5, 1993

| area = {{convert|95|acre}}

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64500361|title=Greensboro MPS}}

| refnum = 93000768{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

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 (c. 1900-1905), Robert L. Potts House (c. 1900-1905), William B. Vaught House (c. 1906), Edgar B. Jennette House (c. 1925-1930), and the Charles B. Aycock School (1922) designed by Starrett & van Vleck.{{Cite web | author=Marvin A. Brown | title= Summit Avenue Historic District | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =December 1992| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/GF1267.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2014-11-01}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.