North Main Street Historic District

North Main Street in Kennesaw, Georgia, is lined with modestly scaled houses built from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. The district covers about 27 acres and runs two-fifths of a mile northwest from Dallas Street. Most buildings are late-nineteenth-century Victorian cottages with hip or gable roofs, though styles range from plantation plain to neoclassical. A large two-story country-style house, the ca. 1896 Stanley-Lewis House, anchors the southeast end. It was the home of J.G. Lewis, the town banker, cotton-gin owner and mayor. A one-story Victorian farmhouse with outbuildings anchors the northwest end and represents the small-scale farming common in this part of Georgia. The street follows one of Kennesaw's main nineteenth-century wagon roads, largely along the old Peachtree Trail. Only one property, a small contemporary house, does not contribute to the district's historic character. The district was recognized as an intact example of residential street development in small northwest Georgia towns.