Milledge Avenue Historic District

Milledge Avenue has been a principal street in Athens since the early 1830s, and its intact residential stretch between Broad Street and Five Points forms a district of about 60 acres. The houses are mostly two stories, large in scale, and built of wood or brick. They illustrate Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Neoclassical, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Foursquare and Craftsman styles. Notable examples include the 1856 Albin P. Dearing House, a brick Greek Revival home with a peripteral colonnade, and the 1895 Fleming-Wilkins House, a wood-framed Queen Anne residence. The avenue is named for Governor John Milledge, who donated land for the University of Georgia. It grew after the Georgia Railroad arrived in the 1840s and became a streetcar route in the mid-1890s. Large estates were gradually subdivided, and more modest houses followed in the 1920s and 1930s. Residents included a cotton factor, a professor, a jeweler, a physician and a judge who also served in Congress. Mature oaks and other trees line the street.