North Broad Street Residential Historic District

North of Winder's central business district lies a residential neighborhood of about 18 acres that grew up after railroads reached the town in the 1880s and 1890s. Its houses range from small Victorian frame cottages to the ornate 1902 Smith-Baxter House, with scrollwork, shingles and a wrap-around porch. Neoclassical houses with monumental porticos, many Bungalows, and a few 1930s brick Tudor houses fill out the streets. The only non-residential building is the Gothic First Baptist Church, built between 1907 and 1914. Large lots, mature trees, shrubs and hedgerows give the area a green, nearly rural character that sets it apart from the commercial core. Residents included merchants, manufacturers, bankers and dentists who shaped the town's economic and civic life. By the mid-1930s the district looked much as it does now. Later commercial growth altered its edges, but an intact historic neighborhood remains. It was listed for its architecture, landscape design and local history.