Bloomfield Street Historic District

Bloomfield Street Historic District is a roughly 30-acre residential neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, next to the University of Georgia campus. Its small lots hold modest wood-framed houses built from the 1890s to the 1930s, in Victorian Eclectic, American Foursquare, Bungalow and Craftsman styles, with some Tudor Revival detailing. Fred Orr, a local architect, designed several Craftsman houses on Mell Street. The Calvin Parr House, an elaborately detailed Victorian cottage, is also individually listed. Development began in the late 1880s, when industrialist Robert L. Bloomfield subdivided land along the east side of Bloomfield Street. Other sections were laid out in 1890 and 1912, and the area grew piecemeal, helped by the nearby Milledge Avenue streetcar line. Merchants, tradesmen and university professors lived here. Informal front-yard landscaping, shade trees and a small triangular green give the district a park-like setting. It was listed for its architecture, landscape design, planning history and the Bloomfield connection.