Bainbridge Residential Historic District

This 125-acre neighborhood east and south of downtown Bainbridge, in southwest Georgia, holds the largest intact collection of historic houses in the city. Most of its 197 contributing buildings went up between about 1880 and 1930, when separate subdivisions merged into one varied neighborhood. Two houses from the 1850s, the Farrar House and the Harrel House, represent the town's antebellum years. Styles include Queen Anne, Dutch Colonial Revival, Neoclassical, Craftsman bungalow, and American Foursquare, with simple pyramidal-roofed cottages along Washington Street and Georgia Avenue. Shotwell Street, the widest avenue, carries the grandest residences and two prominent churches: First Baptist, with a dome modeled on Monticello, and First United Methodist, a Romanesque Revival building with a bell tower. The district was listed for its architecture and as a good example of an evolved neighborhood that grew piecemeal from the town's original grid, with a mix of house sizes, types, and periods.