Cave Spring Residential Historic District

Alabama Road and Rivers Street in Cave Spring, Georgia, form a 24-acre residential neighborhood of detached, wood-framed houses and two churches. Homes range from large mansions by local standards to small cottages, built from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Victorian Eclectic, Queen Anne and Bungalow styles all appear, and the unusually large number of Gothic Revival houses and a Gothic Revival church stand out in a state dominated by Greek Revival. Uniform setbacks, street trees and informally landscaped front yards tie the blocks together. The neighborhood grew along a major street in a gridiron town as merchants, industrialists and educators built homes near the spring's commercial and school activity. Methodists received land for a church in 1856 and built their current church in 1882, while the Presbyterian church dates to about 1870. The district was recognized for architecture, landscape architecture, community development, religion and local history.