Wynn's Hill-Overlook-Oak Circle Historic District

East of downtown Columbus, Georgia, this neighborhood grew from the antebellum estates of Colonel William L. Wynn and John R. Dawson. Their houses, the Wynn House and Gordonido, still stand along Wynnton Road. In the 1920s the surrounding land was subdivided as the Overlook and Oak Circle neighborhoods. Landscape architect Earle S. Draper planned Overlook in 1925 with curvilinear streets, parks and grassed medians, giving it an Olmstedian character. The district has 166 contributing resources, mostly houses built between about 1920 and 1955. They include Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Craftsman bungalow and ranch designs, many by Columbus architects such as Charles F. Hickman, F. Roy Duncan and T. Firth Lockwood. Gardens by the Olmsted Brothers firm survive on the Columbus Museum grounds and at a private residence, and Sarling Park, a memorial fountain park, dates to 1929. Mature water oaks line the streets, and the neighborhood keeps its uniform setbacks and informal landscaping.