North Main Street Commercial Historic District (Statesboro, Georgia)
The North Main Street Commercial Historic District in Statesboro, Georgia is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It includes eight adjacent contributing buildings on the west side of the first block of North Main Street. It does not include the property at the corner of West Main and North Main, but rather is the next eight buildings going north from that, to and including the corner of Courtland Street.[2]
North Main Street Commercial Historic District | |
.jpg) The Blitch Building, 2017 | |
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| Location | Roughly N. Main St. between Courtland and W. Main Sts., Statesboro, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 32°26′57″N 81°47′00″W / 32.449167°N 81.783333°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c.1900 |
| Architect | Blackburn, L.R. |
| Architectural style | Chicago, Italianate, Commercial Style |
| MPS | Downtown Statesboro MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 89001159[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 6, 1989 |
The buildings are one- and two-story brick commercial buildings with shared walls. The two-story ones have pressed-metal cornices. The main architectural style is Italianate, reflected in round-arched window openings. No original storefronts are present; all have been modernized.[2]
Statesboro was the subject of a wider survey of historic resources completed at the same time as the NRHP nomination for the district.[3]
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Janice E. Adams and Richard Cloues (July 12, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: North Main Street Commercial Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved April 12, 2017. With four photos (see photo captions page 10 in text).
- ^ Janice E. Adams and Richard Cloues (July 12, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Historic Resources of Downtown Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia". National Park Service. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
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