Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Fayetteville, United States

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Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 3.7 km
Ascend 73 m
Descend 69 m

Explore Fayetteville in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Fayetteville

Sight 1: Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church

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Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 301 N. Cool Spring Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1893–1894, and is a five bay, rectangular brick building in the Gothic Revival style. The front facade features flanking towers. Also on the property is a contributing house built in 1913 used as an office/administration building. It is a two-story frame house with a hipped roof and wraparound porch.

Wikipedia: Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church (EN)

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Cool Spring Place

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Cool Spring Place, also known as Cool Spring Tavern, is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1788, and is a two-story, five bay by four bay, rectangular Federal style frame dwelling. It low hipped roof and features a double porch on the front facade. It operated as a tavern until 1795, and is believed to be the oldest existing structure in the city of Fayetteville, having survived the disastrous fire of 1831.

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457 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: First Presbyterian Church

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First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Ann and Bow Streets in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1832, incorporating parts of the brick walls of an earlier (1816) church that burned in 1831. It is a two-story gabled brick building, five bays wide and five wider bays deep. The chancel, portico, steeple and most of the interior woodwork are later additions and replacements. The hexastyle portico and steeple were designed by Hobart Upjohn in 1922.

Wikipedia: First Presbyterian Church (Fayetteville, North Carolina) (EN)

366 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Kyle House

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Kyle House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina.

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401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Mansard Roof House

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Mansard Roof House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three bay by six bay, Second Empire style frame dwelling. It has a side-hall plan and rear wing. It features a mansard roof covered with diaper-patterned pressed metal and wraparound porch.

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612 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Market House

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The Market House is a Market house and town hall in the center of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1838 on the site of the old state house and Town Hall which burned down in 1831. Fayetteville was the capital of North Carolina from 1789 to 1794.

Wikipedia: Market House (Fayetteville, North Carolina) (EN)

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: First Baptist Church

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First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at 200 Old Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built between 1906 and 1910, and is a Romanesque Revival style brick church. It has a gable front flanked by towers of unequal size.

Wikipedia: First Baptist Church (Fayetteville, North Carolina) (EN)

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Hay Street United Methodist Church

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Hay Street United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was the first Methodist church constructed in the city.

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345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Fayetteville Area Transportation & Local History Museum

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Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Passenger Depot is a historic train station located at 325 Franklin Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It was built in 1890 by the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway. It is a two-story brick passenger depot with a deep hip roof in the Romanesque Revival style. The seven bay by two bay building features a rounded brick arch arcade. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Wikipedia: Fayetteville station (Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway) (EN)

789 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 10: Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House

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The Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House is a historic house at 135 South Blount Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with complex massing typical of the Queen Anne architectural style. Its main block has a side-gable roof, with a projecting bay section at the right of the front facade that is topped by a gable. A hip roof porch extends from the center of the projecting bay around to the left side. The house was built in 1902, and is unusual as a Queen Anne house in one of the city's historical African-American neighborhoods. Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith, for whom the house was built, was instrumental in the development of North Carolina's first State Colored Normal School, established in Fayetteville in 1877.

Wikipedia: Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House (EN)

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