Hillcrest-Wildwood Circle Historic District

Hillcrest-Wildwood Circle is a residential neighborhood east of downtown Columbus, Georgia, in the area once known as Wynnton. It developed in the early twentieth century from the estate of John F. Flournoy, a Columbus real estate developer. His 1890 house, Hillcrest, sits on the highest hill in Wynnton. Architect L. E. Thornton designed it in the Queen Anne-Eastlake style, and it is described as the only monumental high-style Queen Anne house left in Columbus. Flournoy's children built homes around it from about 1906, and later subdivided the grounds into lots filled with houses by the early 1950s. His company laid out the Wildwood Circle subdivision in 1911. The district contains Georgian and English cottages, bungalows, Colonial Revival, Spanish Revival and ranch houses, plus several apartment buildings. At its southeast corner lies the site of the antebellum Hilton house, which burned in 1983 but has remaining foundations and old trees, and which may hold archaeological evidence.