Boulevard Historic District

Boulevard Historic District is a residential neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, that grew as a streetcar suburb. Planning began in 1890, when a group of private developers, the Athens Park and Improvement Company, laid out the area. A streetcar line down Boulevard connected it with downtown. The suburb was formed from the landholdings of three Greek Revival mansions built between 1835 and 1856 along Prince Avenue. Houses range from simple vernacular cottages to large mansions, mostly of wood, in Victorian Eclectic, Foursquare, Neoclassical and Bungalow styles. A mill village at the northwest corner housed workers for the Southern Manufacturing Company. Yards are informally planted, and some original street trees survive despite a 1973 tornado. The district is also linked to Howell Cobb, a governor and Treasury Secretary, and Benjamin Harvey Hill, a congressman and senator. Later documentation set its period of significance at 1835 to 1930, when development was essentially complete.