High Uptown Historic District

High Uptown is a neighborhood of historic houses and community buildings on Second and Third Avenues, just north of downtown Columbus, Georgia. It lies within the original city plan, and its avenues have wide rights-of-way, grassy borders, granite curbs and street trees. The district holds 39 contributing buildings, 24 of which were already listed individually or in a group listing. They range from the c. 1838 Peabody-Warner House, the earliest in the district, to a 1954 church administration building. Large high-style homes in Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Jacobethan styles sit on deep lots, some with carriage houses. Modest shotgun and cottage houses stand near the railroad tracks at the northern end. A brick Romanesque school from 1893 and a domed Methodist Tabernacle from 1912-13 serve as community landmarks. Because new construction and road projects have claimed many nearby houses, the district preserves what remains of the neighborhood's historic architecture and landscape. It was recognized locally for architecture and landscape architecture.