Broad Street Historic District

Broad Street Historic District is a residential neighborhood of about 25 acres in LaGrange, Georgia, lying between the downtown business district and LaGrange College. Broad Street was laid out in 1828 as part of the original town grid. Large ante-bellum houses on big lots were built there by prominent townspeople, and those holdings were later subdivided as turn-of-the-century textile mill growth created demand for upper-middle-class housing. The result is a neighborhood that grew gradually rather than by deliberate planning. Houses range from one-story cottages to two-story dwellings and span Greek Revival, Victorian, Neoclassical, Tudor Revival and Craftsman/Bungalow styles. Bellevue, a ca. 1855 Greek Revival mansion, is individually listed and a National Historic Landmark. Shade trees, informal front yards, low retaining walls and some hexagonal concrete sidewalk blocks reflect late-nineteenth-century naturalistic landscaping. Politicians, doctors, judges, merchants and mill owners lived here, which supported the district's listing for architecture, planning, landscape design and local history.