Stone Mountain Historic District

Stone Mountain Historic District is a railroad town at the foot of the great granite monadnock for which the city is named, in east central DeKalb County, Georgia. Laid out along the Georgia Railroad line, it holds 275 contributing resources, among them a continuous row of brick and granite commercial buildings on Main Street, a granite depot begun around 1857, a brick trolley barn, churches, and a cemetery dating to about 1850. Local granite appears in buildings, curbs, retaining walls and steps. Houses range from Greek Revival homes of the 1850s to 1870s through Folk Victorian, Craftsman and English Vernacular Revival examples, along with common Georgia house types such as the I-house and gabled-ell cottage. The oldest surviving building is the Andrew Johnson House, built about 1836, later a hotel and Confederate hospital. Shermantown, south of downtown, grew from the late 1860s as the African-American community, with small frame houses, churches and stores. The district reflects the town's growth as a rail and granite shipping center.