Belford Historic District

This residential neighborhood of about eight blocks in Georgetown, Texas, covers the 1200 and 1600-1900 blocks of Austin Avenue and Main Street, four blocks south of the county courthouse. It contains 81 structures, 70 of them contributing, and holds the city's largest collection of historic dwellings. Much of it was built by local lumberman Charles S. Belford, who came to Georgetown in 1884 and built up the Belford Lumber Co. The houses show his range, from his own 1896 Queen Anne home to Prairie School influenced residences and many bungalows. Older homes cluster in the 1200 blocks, while the 1600 to 1900 blocks were built mostly in the 1910s and 1920s with consistent setbacks and similar massing. The neighborhood housed prominent residents, including Mayor Marsh F. Smith and Judge Cooper Sansom. The district records how Georgetown's housing evolved from the 1870s to the 1930s, and how builders began erecting houses in groups much like later subdivisions.