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Five Points grew out of the 1892 East Huntsville Addition, which the City of Huntsville calls the city's first subdivision. Streetcar service made it possible — for the first time working people could live beyond walking distance of their jobs. The streets Pratt, Wellman, Ward, and Wells carry the developers' names, and the neighborhood was annexed into the city in 1925. The name comes from the point where five streets converge near Holmes and Pratt.

It became a local historic preservation district on October 28, 1999 and was listed on the National Register on August 20, 2012. The original layout survives — broad parallel streets, narrow lots, rear service alleys — along with more than a century of vernacular architecture: California bungalows, Queen Anne and other modest Victorians, Craftsman, Colonial Revival, English cottage revival, and later ranch homes. The Vaught House on Ward Avenue was listed on the National Register in 1981, three decades before the district itself.