Lawrenceville Street Historic District
Appearance
Lawrenceville Street Historic District | |
![]() This is the 1916 Turner House | |
Location | Lawrenceville St. roughly between the Henry County Courthouse square and GA 20, McDonough, Georgia |
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Coordinates | 33°27′00″N 84°08′42″W / 33.45000°N 84.14500°W |
Area | 25 acres (10 ha) |
Built | 1823 |
Architect | F.P. Heifner, F.P. |
Architectural style | Queen Anne, Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 09500054[1] |
Added to NRHP | February 20, 2009 |
The Lawrenceville Street Historic District, in McDonough, Georgia, is a 25 acres (10 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It included 27 contributing buildings and a contributing structure.[1][2]
It consists of houses along a street which arcs northeast and east from the Henry County Courthouse. These include:
- House at 34 Lawrenceville Street (c.1900), a New South cottage with "the complex massing of a Queen Anne cottage and a central hall"
- C.W. Walker House (1888), 56 Lawrenceville Street, a two-story, three-bay Georgian
- House at 61 Lawrenceville Street (c.1890), a central-hall plan house with a Greek Revival-style porch and a steeply pitched Gothic Revival-style cross-gable roof
- House at 97 Lawrenceville Street (1904), "an excellent example of a Georgian-plan cottage"
- House at 215 Lawrenceville Street (1916), Renaissance Revival-style[2] This is the Turner House, pictured above.
However, as of 2019, the first three of these have been demolished.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Steven Moffson; William Blankenship (September 10, 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lawrenceville Street Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
External links
[edit]Media related to Lawrenceville Street Historic District at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Queen Anne architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Colonial Revival architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Buildings and structures completed in 1823
- Henry County, Georgia
- Georgia (U.S. state) Registered Historic Place stubs