Dawson Street Residential Historic District

Spread across roughly 200 acres north of Thomasville's commercial center, this neighborhood holds houses built from the 1830s through the 1930s, along with churches, pecan orchards, two historic cemeteries and a city park. It grew step by step as early landholdings were platted and subdivided, and most buildings date from the 1880s to the 1910s, when Thomasville thrived as a winter resort for Northern visitors. Large houses line North Dawson Street, while modest cottages mark historic black settlements and early twentieth-century white middle-class areas. Styles range from Greek Revival to Bungalow/Craftsman. Notable buildings include the 1830s Hardy Bryan House, the 1856 Hardeway House designed by John Wind, and the 1885 Lapham-Patterson House, a National Historic Landmark. Two buildings remain from Young's Female College, and shaded streets and a three-hundred-year-old live oak add to the landscape. The district was listed for its planning, architecture, landscape, education and local history.