Northwest Cedartown Historic District

North and west of downtown Cedartown in Polk County, Georgia, this residential neighborhood grew from the 1860s to 1963 on a gridiron street plan. Development began near downtown and moved northward. The oldest house, an 1865 Italianate-style Georgian cottage, stands on Cave Spring Road. Houses include Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Craftsman bungalow, Colonial Revival and English Vernacular Revival examples, along with American Small Houses and ranch houses. Some late 1940s and 1950s houses were built by Billy Barr's company, Cedartown Builders. The 1955 First Baptist Church is the district's landmark building, and Peek Forest Park, given to the city in 1924, has rock entrances built with Works Progress Administration funding in the 1930s. Mill superintendents and other managers from Cedartown's textile industry lived here, and the area was home to professionals, teachers and business owners in the 1930s. Post-war prosperity led to the subdivision of remaining land. The district contains 375 contributing and 73 noncontributing resources.