Jones Street Residential Historic District

Jones Street and its side streets form a compact residential neighborhood northwest of downtown Lavonia, Georgia. Fourteen historic buildings sit on small rectangular lots with similar setbacks, informal landscaping and many pecan trees. Most are wood-frame houses in plain, vernacular Victorian styles. The two oldest, in the northwest corner, are narrow Plantation-Plain houses with end chimneys. Later Victorian houses have high hipped roofs, wide porches and front gables with decorative attic vents. A two-story brick Neoclassical house with a pedimented portico and Corinthian columns anchors the corner of Baker and Jones Streets. The neighborhood grew from a doctor's residence built around 1887 and a road that became Jones Street. Doctors, a newspaper owner, a funeral home and cotton gin owner, a railroad agent and Methodist ministers lived here. After World War II a country road was straightened and two cottages were moved back. The district was listed for its architecture, planning and local history.