Monticello Historic District

Monticello, the Jasper County seat in Georgia's north-central Piedmont, was laid out in 1808 around a courthouse square on a grid called the Washington plan. The historic district surrounds that square and extends along the main roads leading into town, with shops, warehouses and government buildings at the center and houses radiating outward. Landmarks include the 1907 Neoclassical Revival courthouse, the 1936 post office, the 1922 Monticello High School and the 1929 Art Deco Tucker Motor Company building. Houses range from early I-houses and Greek Revival homes to Queen Anne, Craftsman and English Vernacular Revival examples, though most buildings are plain vernacular types. The district was recognized for its intact collection of buildings built between 1816 and the 1940s, which shows how Georgia architecture changed over that time, and for its role in the county's commerce, agriculture, railroad and local government history. Its period of significance runs from 1808 to 1946.