{"nrhp_refnum":"87001450","name":"South Street-Broad Street-Main Street-Laurel Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"South, Broad, Main, and Laurel Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Greene County","state":"GA","lat":33.57456037100005,"lon":-83.18744187563698,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 115-acre residential historic district in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, centered on South, Broad, Main and Laurel Streets, with houses and three churches dating from about 1800 to 1930 on a town plan laid out in 1786.","why_significant":"The district shows more than a century of small-town Piedmont Georgia domestic architecture, from Plantation Plain to Craftsman. Its street trees, curbs and informal front yards come from a village improvement society effort begun in 1898. It also preserves both the planned 1786 grid and later organic growth, and contains a lodge building tied to Greensboro's black community.","narrative":"This 115-acre neighborhood in Greensboro, Georgia, contains houses and churches built between about 1800 and 1930. Most are one- and two-story frame dwellings, many remodeled over time. Styles include Plantation Plain, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Neoclassical, Bungalow and Craftsman. The Jonas Fauche House on Broad Street, built around 1800, is among the oldest and best preserved. Three churches, Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist, rise above the residential streets. The district began with the town plat of 1786, whose grid still organizes the eastern section, while the western part grew more irregularly around older rural tracts. A railroad, mostly in a cut, divides the two. Street trees, granite curbs and informal front yards result from landscape improvements begun in 1898 by a village improvement society. A brick lodge at South and West Streets recalls the town's black community, as few other resources from that history survive. The district has 78 contributing and 15 noncontributing buildings.","period_of_significance":"1786 (plan), 1800-1930 (architecture)","architect_builder":"Fay and Bruin, Architects, and Cook, Grumy, and Company (Davis-Smith House); Leila Ross Wilburn (attributed, a Craftsman house on East Street); Tunis Tunison (attributed, Presbyterian Church)","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic, Queen Anne, Victorian Eclectic, Neoclassical, Bungalow, Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"General district condition is good; current uses are residential and religious.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.374462-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87001450.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206170","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49563781"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/greene-county/south-street-broad-street-main-street-laurel-street-historic-district-87001450/"}