West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic District

West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic District is a neighborhood of about 80 acres in Athens, Georgia, one mile southwest of downtown. It grew from a large farm estate. Henry Hull Carlton bought the land in 1885, built a Second Empire mansion and laid out a wide drive that became West Cloverhurst Avenue. Judge Hamilton McWhorter later platted the estate into small lots, and the mansion was demolished in 1934. Most of the district's houses date from 1935 to 1957. They include Craftsman bungalows, English Vernacular Revival and Colonial Revival houses, American Small Houses and ranch houses. The district was listed for its architecture and for what it shows about suburban growth south of downtown as the University of Georgia expanded. Residents included professors, administrators, physicians, bankers and newspaper editors. The neighborhood remains in residential use, with 101 contributing resources, nearly all of them houses.