South Overton Residential Historic District

South Overton is a neighborhood of roughly 35 blocks on flat ground just west of Lubbock's original town, laid out as part of the Overton Addition in 1907 by developer M.C. Overton. Its streets follow a regular grid, with Broadway as a wide main avenue named for Overton's hometown of Louisville. Most of the district's 597 properties are modest one- and one-and-a-half-story houses built in the 1920s and 1930s, in Craftsman bungalow, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles, with some duplexes and a few foursquares. Of these, 393 are classed as contributing. Brick paving, WPA curbs and gutters, and reinstalled street lights survive from earlier improvements. Overton promoted settlement by selling lots, supplying concrete block and backing city sewer and water projects. Early residents included prominent businessmen, professors, physicians and working families. Aluminum siding, porch enclosures and window replacements account for most noncontributing buildings.