South Washington Street Historic District

Along South Washington Street in Clarkesville, Georgia, a quarter-mile stretch of about a dozen buildings forms a small residential historic district covering roughly 19 acres. Most buildings are modest, detached, wood-framed single-family houses in plain style, Georgian Revival, Queen Anne, Victorian Eclectic, and Bungalow forms. Two larger properties stand out: a city farmstead on a four-acre tract with a barn, smokehouse, and cellar, and a rambling Victorian Eclectic house with Queen Anne details, wraparound porches, and several outbuildings. A brick school sits near the center, with a front building from 1931 and a later W.P.A. rear building. The district developed as a streetcar suburb along the trolley line through former agricultural land in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is considered significant as one of two intact historic groupings in the city, for its representative house styles and informal landscaping, for ownership by prominent townspeople, and for the school.