National Register of Historic Places

Bainbridge Residential Historic District

Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia
Listed
November 5, 1987
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
87001907

About this property

The Bainbridge Residential Historic District in Bainbridge, Georgia is an irregularly shaped 125 acres (51 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It then had 197 contributing buildings and 76 non-contributing ones. The overall plan of the neighborhood was also deemed to be a contributing resource. The district encompasses the largest and only intact historic neighborhood in Bainbridge. It includes houses of numerous 19th-and early 20th-century house styles and sizes. the Farrar House at 501 East Evans Street, a two-story simplified Greek Revival style house, with a monumental two-story entry porch, and the Barrel House at 627 East Planter Street, a one-story house with square pillars and pilasters on its inset front verandah. Most houses in the area were built between 1880 and 1930, in subdivisions that merged. The NRHP nomination notes that "One of the architecturally interesting streets in the southwest section of the district is Washington Street, which contains a large collection of pyramidal roofed houses. These one-story frame structures are dominated by their seemingly oversized roofs, with ornamentation limited to turned columns on the front porches. This house type can also be found in the northeast part of the district, on Georgia Avenue, historically a black neighborhood."

Location

Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia
30.90534, -84.57336

Categories

COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTARCHITECTURE
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Nearby Historic Sites

First African Missionary Baptist Church
Colonial
0.1 mi
Bainbridge Commercial Historic District
Listed
0.2 mi
Decatur County Courthouse
Industrial
0.2 mi
Callahan, J. W., House
Industrial
0.3 mi
Curry Hill Plantation
Industrial
6.3 mi

Nearby Battles

Battle of Fowltown (First Seminole War)
1817Early Republic
10.7 mi
Battle of Fowltown — Second Skirmish (November 30, 1817)
1817Early Republic
12.5 mi

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When was Bainbridge Residential Historic District listed on the National Register?

Bainbridge Residential Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1987.

What type of historic resource is Bainbridge Residential Historic District?

Bainbridge Residential Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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