Westside Historic District

Westside Historic District is a hilly residential neighborhood in West Point, Georgia, just north of downtown and between the Alabama state line and the Chattahoochee River. Its streets continue the downtown grid, and its 92 contributing resources include houses, a cemetery with burials from 1841, and landmarks such as the Woman's Club, the Presbyterian Church and the Love Union Church. The earliest houses, found near West 10th Street and 2nd Avenue, are Greek Revival and date from about 1850. Queen Anne houses followed in the late 1800s, and the northern part filled in during the early 1900s with bungalows, cottages and the planned 1920s LaRoza Heights subdivision. Mid-century small houses and early ranch houses complete the sequence. The neighborhood grew with the railroads and the textile industry, and several of its grandest homes were built by members of the Lanier family, leaders of the West Point Manufacturing Company. Fort Tyler, site of a Civil War battle, lies at its western edge.