Cherokee Street Historic District

Cherokee Street Historic District covers roughly 60 acres in Kennesaw, Georgia, along three-fifths of a mile of Cherokee Street. It holds late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century residences and farmhouses, ranging from detailed Victorian cottages to small, plain tenant-type dwellings. Houses sit closer together on smaller lots at the south end, while two-story farmhouses with front porches and rear outbuildings stand farther apart on larger tracts to the north, some of them up to fifteen acres. A historic church lies near the south end. The street was one of the principal nineteenth-century wagon roads leading into Kennesaw, and the district shows how development followed such a road, with in-town homes on small lots and farmsteads strung out beyond. It also illustrates the modest, small-scale farming typical of the region. Architecturally, it includes what the nomination calls the finest Victorian cottage in Kennesaw and the farmhouse of one of the town's largest landowners. A few modern buildings are noncontributing.