Greenville Historic District

Greenville is a small west-central Georgia county seat whose historic core has kept the town plan surveyed in 1828: a grid of twenty blocks centered on a courthouse square. The district covers about 250 acres and holds more than 200 contributing buildings, including brick commercial blocks around the square, the 1903 Classical Revival courthouse designed by J. W. Golucke, the 1896 Italian Villa style jail, churches, a 1907 railroad depot, a 1936 WPA gymnasium and the city cemetery. Houses from the 1830s through the 1930s range from Greek Revival cottages to Queen Anne, Tudor and bungalow designs, along with vernacular types such as shotgun houses and railroad section houses. Three historically black neighborhoods, Methodist Hill, Baldwin Hill and Baptist Hill, retain small frame houses and churches, and local black carpenters helped rebuild the town after an 1893 cyclone. The district was listed for its architecture, commerce, town planning, black history, government and transportation.