Gaskin Avenue Historic District

Historic district in Georgia, United States

United States historic place


Gaskin Avenue Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

McLean House, Gaskin Ave., built 1901
31°30′38″N 82°50′40″W / 31.510556°N 82.844444°W / 31.510556; -82.844444
Area	200 acres (81 ha)
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Bungalow/craftsman, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	93001138^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 21, 1993

The Gaskin Avenue Historic District, in Douglas in Coffee County, Georgia, is a 200 acres (0.81 km²) historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It contained 250 contributing buildings and 135 non-contributing ones.^[1]^[2]

It is roughly bounded by Madison Ave., Wilson St., Pearl Ave., Gordon St., McDonald Ave., the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and Coffee Ave. The district is mostly residential, including historic houses built from c.1890 into the 1940s. Several large Queen Anne-style houses are included. It also includes a Colonial Revival-style Catholic church, a one-story former hospital which in 1993 was in use by the Coffee County Board of Education, and a local women's clubhouse. The district includes significant landscape architecture as well.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Debbie Curtis (August 20, 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Gaskin Avenue Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved September 9, 2017. With 36 photos from 1992 (see photo descriptions pages 11-13 in text).