Dawson Street Residential Historic District

Historic district in Georgia, United States

United States historic place


Dawson Street Residential Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

House on N. Dawson
30°50′39″N 83°58′55″W / 30.844167°N 83.981944°W / 30.844167; -83.981944
Area	200 acres (0.81 km²)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	84001251^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 7, 1984

The Dawson Street Residential Historic District, in Thomasville, Georgia, is a 200-acre (0.81 km²) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It then included 380 contributing buildings and three contributing sites.^[1]

It is located to the north of the city's commercial center and its courthouse square. As well as houses, the district includes several churches, two historic cemeteries (one for whites and one for blacks), a historic city park, and pecan orchards associated with some of the houses.^[2]

It includes two properties already separately-listed on the National Register:

Hardy Bryan House (or Carter House), 312 North Broad Street, a Greek Revival house built by a carpenter/builder which is believed to be one of the earliest surviving houses in Thomasville;
Lapham-Patterson House (1885), 626 North Dawson Street, a National Historic Landmark.^[2]

Also notable in the district are:

several rare examples of single pen houses on Broad Street and Lutten Lane
Hardaway House (1856), 526 North Dawson Street) designed by builder/architect John Wind
312 North Dawson Street (1905), a "concrete stone" structure built as the administration building for Young's Female Academy.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c Carolyn Brooks (June 13, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dawson Street Residential Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved April 20, 2017. With 55 photos from 1983.