Paradise Park Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Paradise Park is a residential neighborhood southeast of downtown Thomasville, Georgia, laid out around a triangular landscaped park with curving streets, large lots and oak-lined avenues. Listed in 1984, the district was amended in 2002 to add two houses. The Neel House at 502 South Broad Street, built in 1907, is a two-story Neoclassical Revival dwelling with a full-height columned portico. It was left out of the first listing because of the owner's objection. The Tuck House at 701 South Broad Street, built in 1940 to designs by local architect Roderick Brantley, is a one-story brick-veneer ranch house with Greek Revival details and a camellia garden. It was previously excluded because of its age. The neighborhood was a retreat for wealthy northern families, especially from Cleveland, and was locally called Yankee Paradise. Including the 1940 house extends the period of significance to the end of the area's development, which was complete by World War II.