South Street-Broad Street-Main Street-Laurel Street Historic District

This 115-acre neighborhood in Greensboro, Georgia, contains houses and churches built between about 1800 and 1930. Most are one- and two-story frame dwellings, many remodeled over time. Styles include Plantation Plain, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Neoclassical, Bungalow and Craftsman. The Jonas Fauche House on Broad Street, built around 1800, is among the oldest and best preserved. Three churches, Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist, rise above the residential streets. The district began with the town plat of 1786, whose grid still organizes the eastern section, while the western part grew more irregularly around older rural tracts. A railroad, mostly in a cut, divides the two. Street trees, granite curbs and informal front yards result from landscape improvements begun in 1898 by a village improvement society. A brick lodge at South and West Streets recalls the town's black community, as few other resources from that history survive. The district has 78 contributing and 15 noncontributing buildings.