The one hundred ninety-first in a series of posts highlighting buildings in East Wilson Historic District, a national historic district located in Wilson, North Carolina. As originally approved, the district encompasses 858 contributing buildings and two contributing structures in a historically African-American section of Wilson. (A significant number have since been lost.) The district was developed between about 1890 to 1940 and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Bungalow/American Craftsman, and Shotgun-style architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Photo by Drew C. Wilson, “Suspicious hire damages vacant house,” Wilson Times, 28 December 2023.

As described in the nomination form for the East Wilson Historic District: “ca. 1922; 1 story; shotgun; altered and aluminum-sided.”

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In the 1930 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Boston Liston (c; Emma) hlpr h 624 E Vance

In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 624 East Vance, rented at $8/month, Liston Boston, 29, sawmill laborer, born in South Carolina; wife Erma Jane, 28, born in South Carolina; children Lucile, 5; Eliza, 3; Cora E., 1; and Luther, 5 months; brother-in-law Simon Burger, 20, sawmill laborer, and mother-in-law Eliza Burger, 50, widow.

In the 1941 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Boston Liston (c; Emma; 6) carp h 624 E Vance

In the 1947 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Sharp Tearr (c; Mamie) emp City h 624 E Vance

In the 1950 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: at 624 East Vance, Ernest Sharp, 43, road scraper, city road department, and wife Mammie, 42.