O'Neal School Neighborhood Historic District

This neighborhood just southeast of downtown Cordele, in Crisp County, Georgia, contains about 250 contributing buildings put up between 1887 and 1954. It follows the street grid laid out when the city was platted in 1887 and grew through land companies, including the Americus Investment Company and the O'Neal Land and Development Company. Larger houses line Twelfth through Fifteenth Avenues, while smaller homes sit along the edges. Styles range from Italianate, Queen Anne and Folk Victorian to Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival, English Vernacular Revival and Craftsman, with house types such as Georgian cottages, gabled ell cottages, New South cottages and bungalows. Several houses were designed by architects T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. and Jr. of Columbus and W. Elliot Dunwody, Jr. of Macon. The district also holds two early 20th-century commercial buildings and landmark churches, including Christ Episcopal, First Methodist, First Baptist and First Presbyterian. It was listed for its architecture and its role in the planned growth of Cordele.