{"nrhp_refnum":"85000851","name":"Boulevard Historic District","other_names":["See Also:President's House, University of Georgia","Grady, Hen"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Seaboard Coastline RR tracks, Pulaski St., Prince Ave., and Hiawassee St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.96631719250007,"lon":-83.39102954303847,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Boulevard Historic District is a streetcar suburb in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, covering about 150 acres. It was laid out from 1890 by the Athens Park and Improvement Company on land from three antebellum estates.","why_significant":"The district is significant for community planning and transportation as a late 19th-century streetcar suburb built by private investors. It is also significant for its range of 19th- and early 20th-century houses, its informal and formal landscaping, and its association with prominent politicians such as Howell Cobb and Benjamin Harvey Hill.","narrative":"Boulevard Historic District is a residential neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, that grew as a streetcar suburb. Planning began in 1890, when a group of private developers, the Athens Park and Improvement Company, laid out the area. A streetcar line down Boulevard connected it with downtown. The suburb was formed from the landholdings of three Greek Revival mansions built between 1835 and 1856 along Prince Avenue. Houses range from simple vernacular cottages to large mansions, mostly of wood, in Victorian Eclectic, Foursquare, Neoclassical and Bungalow styles. A mill village at the northwest corner housed workers for the Southern Manufacturing Company. Yards are informally planted, and some original street trees survive despite a 1973 tornado. The district is also linked to Howell Cobb, a governor and Treasury Secretary, and Benjamin Harvey Hill, a congressman and senator. Later documentation set its period of significance at 1835 to 1930, when development was essentially complete.","period_of_significance":"1835-1930","architect_builder":"Multiple","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Victorian Eclectic, American Foursquare, Neoclassical, Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; mostly private residences with some commercial, educational and religious uses. Intrusions include a few recent apartment buildings and commercial structures.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.479596-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/85000851.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000851/28611d9d12-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000851/28611d9d12-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sarah White","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homes_on_Boulevard,_Athens.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah White</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:Homes_on_Boulevard,_Athens.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207422","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34904125"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/boulevard-historic-district-85000851/"}