East Main Street Residential Historic District

This small residential district in Lumpkin, Georgia, covers roughly three acres along East Main Street, around its intersection with Elm Street. It holds a cluster of historic houses: a gable-roofed Plantation Plain house, two gable-roofed Victorian cottages, and a two-story Queen Anne house with bay windows, rotundas, gable peaks and a rambling one-story porch. The group is what remains of a once-larger neighborhood along the road to Americus, and it sits next to the town's commercial district. Nearby historic properties are separated from it by many non-historic homes. The district is considered significant for its architecture, since the houses are good local examples of their styles and show awareness of fashions found in larger towns. It also reflects community planning, because merchants built homes close to their businesses at a key point in the original street grid. The Queen Anne house was first owned by a local railroad magnate, Mr. Herring, which points to the railroad's importance in Lumpkin.