Bridgers Building/Church Street Apartments

Bridgers Building/Church Street Apartments is a mixed use development located in Historic Downtown Tarboro, NC. It features a prominent corner location with commercial/retail spaces on the first floor and basement level and 11 residential units on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

Completed in 2001, the Bridgers Building/Church Street Apartments redevelopment project combined both historic buildings at the central corner of Main & Church Streets. The Henry Clark Bridgers Building, dedicated in 1907, housed the town’s Post Office and Pharmacy on the first floor and the headquarters of Carolina Railroad on the upper floors. The Church Street Apartments was originally started as a hotel in the 1920’s when the depression halted construction. The building’s development was completed in 1933 in its re-imagined use as an apartment house.  

From the National Register of Historic Places Inventory for Tarboro, NC:

Henry Clark Bridgers Building – Strikingly handsome early 20th century classical building, well-preserved, with rich detail including pilasters, grilles, cornices, frieze above first floor inscribed with “Post Office” & “Drugstore”. .. This building was, it is said, designed and built by H.C. Bridgers (1876-1951).

Church Street Apartments – 101-105 E Church Street ca 1931 – Imposing four-story office building was marked on the 1931 Sanborn Map as “vacant, unfinished,” nicely dating its construction and possibly suggesting the impact of the Depression on its completion. Brick and stone accents in eclectic classical fashion, with two-story ground level treatment with arches and stylized pilasters. With neighboring Bridgers Building, creates concentration of early 20th century ambitious commercial structures expressive of the prosperity of the period.

These two buildings, now combined into the Bridgers Building/Church Street Apartments, are the commercial anchor in downtown Tarboro. They have strong rental history with long-term tenants in the 11 residential apartments and a waiting list. The commercial tenants include the Tarboro Coffee House, Church Street Tap & Deli, and 2 photography studios.

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