South Broad Street Historic District

South Broad Street Historic District is a roughly 10-acre residential neighborhood in Rome, Georgia, laid out along a steep ridge above the Etowah River. It began as part of Hillsborough, a suburban village south of the river incorporated in 1875, and grew rapidly after the streetcar arrived and the city annexed the area in the late 1880s. Large brick and frame houses, mostly late Victorian with turrets, stained and leaded glass, and porches with turned balusters, were built for business and professional families, and most stood by 1903. Smaller one-story frame rental houses, many built by local builder Charley Blackstock, were added from about 1910 along Etowah Terrace for working-class families. Large shade trees, lawns and rock retaining walls give the street a park-like setting. The remaining intact houses are what is left of a larger neighborhood later broken up by commercial development. The district was listed for its planning, architecture, landscape design and local history, reflecting two housing types typical of Rome between 1880 and 1930.