Pinehurst Race Track is a historic horse racing track and national historic district located at Pinehurst in Moore County, North Carolina, USA. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 8 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure on a complex of barns, stables and other horse-related buildings and paddocks arranged around two oval-shaped race tracks. The oval-shaped race tracks are believed to have been laid out by 1915 as part of the Pinehurst Race Track established by Leonard Tufts. The Amphidrome is a large agricultural exhibition hall built about 1917. It is a 2 1/2-story, gable-roofed building with stuccoed exterior walls and massive timber roof trusses in the Mission Revival style. Other contributing resources include six paddocks (c. 1916-1920), six barns (c. 1910), harness shop (1930), farrier shop (c. 1910), clubhouse (c. 1916), the network of lanes and driveways (c. 1910), and fences (c. 1910). Pinehurst Race Track is the site of the oldest surviving early-20th century fair exhibition hall in the state.[2]

Pinehurst Race Track
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Pinehurst Race Track, March 2007
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Nearest city	Jct. of Morgantown Rd. and NC 5, SE corner, near Pinehurst, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°10′54″N 79°27′59″W
Area	50 acres (20 ha)
Built	1915 (1915)
Architectural style	Mission/spanish Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	92001628[1]
Added to NRHP	November 27, 1992

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

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