{"nrhp_refnum":"06000737","name":"Downtown Athens Historic District (Additional Documentation, Boundary Increase II and Boundary Decrease)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Dougherty St., Thomas St., Hickory St., Broad St. South St. and Pulaski St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.95885989050004,"lon":-83.37678690787521,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Black","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic commercial and civic district in the central business district of Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, with buildings dating from the mid-19th to mid-20th century. This documentation adds area to the west and east and removes altered or demolished areas on the eastern edge.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as the commercial and community center of Athens, with intact commercial buildings and civic landmarks. It adds the early to mid-20th century western area, including the \"Hot Corner\" African-American commercial district and automobile-related buildings, and updates the period of significance.","narrative":"Downtown Athens in northeast Georgia contains a compact commercial core of mostly one- to two-story brick buildings with shared walls, built up to the sidewalk from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Civic landmarks include the 1914 courthouse, City Hall, the 1941 post office and courthouse, and the 1856 First Presbyterian Church. Taller buildings include the nine-story Holman Building of 1913. This documentation extends the district west to Pulaski Street, where buildings from the early to mid-20th century housed automobile sales and service businesses. It also takes in the \"Hot Corner\" at Washington and Hull Streets, which grew into the city's African-American commercial district and includes the 1910 Morton Building, built by Monroe Bowers \"Pink\" Morton. Two mid-20th-century buildings to the east are added, while altered or demolished areas on the eastern edge are removed. The period of significance is updated to cover the whole district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Neel Reid (Michael Brothers Department Store); A. Ten Eyck Brown (1914 Athens County Courthouse, Georgian Hotel); Monroe Bowers \"Pink\" Morton (Morton Building)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival, Beaux Arts, Classical Revival, Commercial Style, Art Moderne, Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Many buildings remain in use as offices, shops, restaurants, apartments, government buildings and churches. The Union Bus Terminal still serves as a bus station, and the Morton Theatre reopened in 1994 after restoration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.196467-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/06000737.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000737/e88110523a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000737/e88110523a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clarke_County_Courthouse,_Athens,_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clarke_County_Courthouse,_Athens,_GA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72000379","name":"Old North Campus, University of Georgia","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/old-north-campus-university-of-georgia-72000379/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207456","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Athens_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5303355"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/downtown-athens-historic-district-additional-documentation-boundary-increase-ii-06000737/"}