North Broad Street Historic District

North Broad Street Historic District is a residential neighborhood of about 60 properties on roughly 55 acres north of downtown Monroe, Georgia. Its earliest building is the Davis-Edwards House, a two-story frame Greek Revival dwelling dated to 1845 in one source. Growth stayed slow until the railroad and new industry arrived in the 1880s and 1890s. Victorian frame houses followed, and most buildings date from the 1890s to the 1930s, when classical and colonial designs with monumental porticos became common and brick increasingly replaced wood. Later bungalows appear at the edges. Large lots, mature trees, hedgerows and informal plantings give the area a spacious character. The district housed merchants, politicians and educators who shaped the city, including W.H. Nunnally and C.G. Nowell, who platted lots here in 1907. It is significant for its architecture, landscape and local history. Today it remains residential, with some homes converted to offices.