Downtown Athens Historic District (Additional Documentation, Boundary Increase II and Boundary Decrease)

Downtown Athens in northeast Georgia contains a compact commercial core of mostly one- to two-story brick buildings with shared walls, built up to the sidewalk from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Civic landmarks include the 1914 courthouse, City Hall, the 1941 post office and courthouse, and the 1856 First Presbyterian Church. Taller buildings include the nine-story Holman Building of 1913. This documentation extends the district west to Pulaski Street, where buildings from the early to mid-20th century housed automobile sales and service businesses. It also takes in the "Hot Corner" at Washington and Hull Streets, which grew into the city's African-American commercial district and includes the 1910 Morton Building, built by Monroe Bowers "Pink" Morton. Two mid-20th-century buildings to the east are added, while altered or demolished areas on the eastern edge are removed. The period of significance is updated to cover the whole district.