{"nrhp_refnum":"09000054","name":"Lawrenceville Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Lawrenceville St. roughly between the Henry County Courthouse square and GA 20","address_restricted":false,"city":"McDonough","county":"Henry County","state":"GA","lat":33.45117444300004,"lon":-84.14400131793118,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district along Lawrenceville Street in the northeast part of McDonough, Henry County, Georgia, running from the courthouse square to Georgia Highway 20. It has about 33 resources, mostly houses built from the 1880s to 1960, on a street laid out in 1823.","why_significant":"The district is significant in community planning and development because Lawrenceville Street is one of McDonough's earliest streets and was a principal middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhood near the courthouse square. It is also significant in architecture because its houses represent styles and types built in Georgia cities from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.","narrative":"Lawrenceville Street is a residential street in the northeast corner of McDonough, Georgia, curving from the Henry County courthouse square to Georgia Highway 20. The street was laid out in 1823, the year McDonough became the county seat. The district holds 28 contributing resources, mainly houses, including Georgian-plan and New South cottages from around 1900, a large brick Renaissance Revival house of 1916 designed by F. P. Heifner, Craftsman bungalows, English Vernacular Revival and Colonial Revival houses, and ranch houses built up to 1960. It was listed for architecture because the houses show the styles common in Georgia cities over about seventy years. It was also listed for community planning and development. After the railroad arrived in the early 1880s, the town faced a housing shortage, yet most land on this street stayed in the hands of a few families, so building lots were developed piecemeal and the street became an upper-middle-class enclave. By 1960 it was fully developed.","period_of_significance":"1823-1960","architect_builder":"Heifner, F.P. (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Colonial, Italian Renaissance and Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; also central-hall-plan, Georgian-plan, gabled-wing and Queen Anne cottages and ranch houses","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is domestic, with single and multiple dwellings. Five of the 33 resources are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.533916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/09000054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000054/a78223a3eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000054/a78223a3eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrenceville_Street_Historic_District_(02).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73</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:Lawrenceville_Street_Historic_District_(02).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208668","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenceville_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55316260"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/henry-county/lawrenceville-street-historic-district-09000054/"}