{"nrhp_refnum":"89000850","name":"Douglasville Commercial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Broad St., Adair St., Church St., and Club Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Douglasville","county":"Douglas County","state":"GA","lat":33.75082854000007,"lon":-84.74875956916975,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small-city central business district of about five blocks along Broad Street and Church Street in Douglasville, Douglas County, Georgia, laid out in 1874-1875 parallel to the railroad. It holds 38 contributing and 10 noncontributing resources, mostly brick commercial buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district is significant for architecture because it has a concentration of commercial storefront buildings and local versions of Italianate, Beaux Arts and Tudor Revival styles. It is significant for commerce as the commercial center of Douglas County, and for transportation and community planning because the town was laid out as a county seat alongside the Georgia Western Railroad.","narrative":"Downtown Douglasville, Georgia, is a five-block commercial district arranged along Broad and Church Streets, facing the railroad tracks. The town was planned in 1874-1875 as the new Douglas County seat, with its street grid and courthouse square oriented to the Georgia Western Railroad. Most buildings are one- or two-story brick structures from the late 1800s and early 1900s, including plain commercial storefronts with display windows and decorative brickwork. Notable examples include the 1905 Douglasville Banking Company building in the Beaux Arts style, the 1885 Selman Drug and Jewelry Company building in the Italianate style, and a 1920s Gulf Oil station in the Tudor Revival style. The district was the commercial center for the county, with banks, stores, a Masonic lodge and services for surrounding communities. It was listed for its architecture and its role in local commerce, transportation and town planning. Development between 1874 and 1941 was fairly continuous, and after World War II growth moved mostly outside the district.","period_of_significance":"1874-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate; Beaux Arts; Tudor Revival; Commercial Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions listed include business, meeting hall and courthouse use. Many buildings are described as virtually intact, while others have altered storefronts.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.382447-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/89000850.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000850/a0b0dfc26f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000850/a0b0dfc26f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Douglasville_Commercial_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Douglasville_Commercial_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207890","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglasville_Commercial_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49484040"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/douglas-county/douglasville-commercial-historic-district-89000850/"}