Castleberry Hill Historic District

Castleberry Hill is a dense commercial and warehouse district on the southwestern edge of downtown Atlanta, hemmed in by railroad tracks on one side and Peters, Walker and Nelson Streets on the others. About 108 brick buildings, mostly one to three stories, occupy roughly 40 acres. Peters Street holds retail buildings from the 1890s to the 1930s with corbeled cornices and arched windows, along with an 1880s freight depot and a stone-fronted bank of 1900. Nelson and Walker Streets are lined with warehouses, mostly from the 1920s, built after a rail spur arrived between 1912 and 1915. The area changed from a largely residential neighborhood to a commercial and industrial one by about 1930. It was listed because it preserves Atlanta's most intact group of early 20th-century warehouses, shows how the railroad shaped streets and buildings, and retains modest commercial architecture that has become scarce in the city.