Augusta Downtown Historic District

Downtown Augusta, Georgia, is preserved as a single historic district running from 5th to 13th Street along the Savannah River. The city was laid out in 1736 on a gridiron plan, and the district follows its three main avenues. Broad Street is the commercial corridor, with rows of storefronts from the 1820s to the 1960s, ranging from Federal-style shops with dwellings above to Italianate blocks, Art Deco theaters and an 18-story steel-and-glass bank tower completed in 1967. Greene Street is a tree-lined boulevard with a landscaped median, churches, public buildings and large nineteenth-century houses. Telfair Street holds landmarks such as the Academy of Richmond County and the Medical College of Georgia. Riverside warehouses, a levee section and railroad bridges reflect the cotton trade and the railroad that made Augusta a major inland market. The district gathers seventeen individually listed properties, two earlier districts and one National Historic Landmark, along with hundreds of other buildings, sites, structures and objects.