Ashburn Heights-Hudson-College Avenue Historic District

This neighborhood northeast of downtown Ashburn, Georgia, is the city's largest historic residential area. It combines two parts: the Hudson-College Avenue area, which became part of the city in 1898, and Ashburn Heights, the city's first planned subdivision, platted in 1906. Most buildings are one-story wood-frame houses built between 1897 and the early 1940s, showing Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Craftsman and revival influences. Macon architect Peter E. Dennis designed several houses and the original 1899 high school, which later became an elementary school after fire damage and additions. A wood-frame community and library building was added in 1932 with public works assistance and is now the city library. Yards are informally landscaped with shrubs and mature trees in the Georgia "New South" manner. The district was recognized for its role in the town's growth as a middle-class neighborhood, its architecture, its street plan, its education buildings and its landscaping.