Trianon Historic District

Lenoir County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built in 1939, and is a three-story, "H"-shaped, Moderne style building. It is faced with a limestone veneer and accented by streamlined, stylized ornament. It features a tetrastyle in antis portico of square fluted piers.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Kinston Baptist-White Rock Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian and Baptist church building located at 516 Thompson Street in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built in 1857–1858, and is a rectangular, temple-form Greek Revival style frame building with a pedimented front gable roof. It features a bold distyle in antis portico with enclosed end bays. The church was built for the Kinston Baptist Church and moved to its present (third) location in 1901 after its purchase by an African-American Presbyterian congregation (White Rock Church) which it has served since that time. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Grainger Stadium is a sports venue located in Kinston, North Carolina. It is the home ballpark for the Down East Bird Dawgs, which joined the Frontier League for the 2025 season, as well as the annual Freedom Classic between Navy and Air Force. Grainger was previously home to the Down East Wood Ducks, the Kinston Indians and all the professional Kinston baseball teams since 1949.

Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Freight Depot was a historic freight depot located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built in 1900 by the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, and is a two-story Romanesque style building faced in tan brick. It had a standing seam tin gable roof with a monitor roof and 11 freight bays.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 but nevertheless was razed in 2009.

Baptist Parsonage, also known as Archbell House, is a historic Baptist church parsonage located at 211 S. McLewean Street in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built about 1858, and is a two-story, double-pile, center-hall-plan Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It is sheathed with weatherboard siding, has a hipped roof, and paired stuccoed interior chimneys.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Robert L. Blalock House is a historic home located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It consists of the original two-story, three bay, double-pile, side-hall-plan Greek Revival style main block dated to the 1850s, and a large, two-story rear ell. It has a one-story gable-roofed wing and a small shed-roofed room north of the rear ell and a complex arrangement of one- and two-story additions and enclosed porches to the south. The house was renovated in the 1920s in the Classical Revival style. It features a full-width front porch supported by groups of square-section brick columns with a round corner pavilion and porte-cochère. It has housed a funeral home since 1947.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Kinston Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 30 contributing buildings in a mixed commercial and industrial section of Kinston. The district is considered a boundary increase to the previously listed Queen-Gordon Streets Historic District. The buildings include notable examples of Art Deco and Romanesque style architecture and date between 1896 and 1941. Notable buildings include the Carolina Theatre (1935), Cash Supply Store Building (c. 1914), Spence Motor Company Building, and Ellis Carriage Factory (1908-1914).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 20 contributing buildings in a mixed commercial and industrial section of Kinston. The buildings include notable examples of Classical Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Romanesque style architecture and date between 1895 and the mid-1930s. Notable buildings include the Gordon Street Christian Church (1912-1915), (former) U. S. Post Office/Federal Building (1915), Citizens / First National Bank Building (1903), (former) Farmers and Merchants Bank (1924), Canady Building (1899), and the LaRoque and Hewitt Building (c. 1900).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Kinston Commercial Historic District is considered a boundary increase to the Queen–Gordon Streets Historic District.

The Standard Drug No. 2 is a historic commercial building located in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built between 1918 and 1924, and is a two-story, brick Commercial Style with street level, plate-glass windows. The interior retains an Art Deco-style lunch counter and pressed metal ceiling. Sit-ins were held at the lunch counter in 1960 and 1961, to protest segregation.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

CSS Neuse was a steam-powered ironclad ram of the Confederate States Navy that served in the latter part the American Civil War and was eventually scuttled to avoid capture by rapidly advancing Union Army forces. In the early 1960s, she produced approximately 15,000 artifacts from her raised lower hull, the largest number ever found on a recovered Confederate vessel. The remains of her lower hull and a selection of her artifacts are on exhibit in Kinston, North Carolina at the CSS Neuse Interpretive Center State Historic Site, which belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The ironclad is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Kinston Fire Station-City Hall is a historic fire station and city hall located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built in 1895, and is a two-story brick structure with a two-story rear wing built in several stages. The main block has a sloping roof with raised parapet. The building was renovated in 1987. It houses the Caswell No. 1 Fire Station Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Peoples Bank Building is a historic bank building located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built about 1923, and is a modest two-story, cinder block building, sheathed in brick and in the Classical Revival style. It has a flat roof with raised parapet ornamented by brick panels outlined in limestone. The front facade features a large arched opening with a stone surround. The building housed one of only two African-American-owned banks to operate in the city of Kinston. The bank ceased to operate in 1931, and the building has housed a number of commercial enterprises.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.