Green Street District

Green Street is Gainesville's broad, tree-lined residential avenue, and this district covers about half a mile of it, roughly 22 acres. The houses date mainly from the 1880s to the 1930s and are chiefly Victorian and Neo-classical Revival, with a few Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival and bungalow examples. Notable buildings include the High Victorian Smith-Palmour-Estes House of 1888, the monumental Miller-Banks House of 1912 and the Charters-Smith House of 1906 with its convex two-story portico. Green Street began as the road to the gold mining regions. After the railroad arrived in the 1870s and a cotton market grew, business spread across the town, and prosperous residents built fine homes here from about 1880. For over fifty years it was known as one of Northeast Georgia's outstanding residential neighborhoods. The district was listed for its group of largely unaltered Neo-classical houses and to help protect them from commercial development.