East Vine Street Warehouse and Depot District
Why it's listed
Along East Vine Street in Statesboro, a small cluster of five brick warehouses and a frame railroad depot recalls the town's cotton and rail economy. The warehouses date from 1906 to 1908 and are plain, practical buildings with flat roofs, horizontal parapets, segmental-arched windows and wooden loading docks. Old rail sidings still run through the alleys between them. The depot, built in 1923 on the plan of an 1899 depot lost to fire in 1922, is a single-story weatherboard building with a hipped roof and bracketed eaves. It is described as the last railroad depot built in Georgia before World War II. Statesboro grew after the railroad arrived in 1889 and prospered with the Sea Island cotton market until the boll weevil and the Great Depression cut the volume of goods stored and shipped. The district was listed for its role in commerce and transportation and for its utilitarian early twentieth-century design. Contractor L. R. Blackburn is credited with some of the masonry.
Significance in brief: The district is significant for commerce and transportation because it preserves the buildings tied to the railroad and Sea Island cotton trade that drove Statesboro's early 20th-century prosperity. It is also significant for architecture, since it holds the only concentration of utilitarian warehouse design in Statesboro. The 1923 depot was described as the last railroad depot built in pre-World War II Georgia.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 89001156, listed September 6, 1989. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | Roughly bounded by E. Vine St., Central of Georgia Railroad tracks, and Cherry St., Statesboro |
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| County | Bulloch County |
| Listed | September 6, 1989 |
| Reference number | 89001156 |
| Resource type | District |
| Period of significance | 1906-1923 |
| Architect / builder | Blackburn, L. R. |
| Architectural style | Commercial |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Commerce, Transportation, Architecture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Warehouses and depot remain in commercial use, including a specialty store and a telephone company engineering division; the district is described as relatively intact, with facade changes mainly at the front. |
| Acreage | 3 |
| Coordinates | 32.44803, -81.67475 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 89001156.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- This listing as JSON
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