Lawrenceville Street Historic District Explained

Lawrenceville Street Historic District
Location:	Lawrenceville St. roughly between the Henry County Courthouse square and GA 20, McDonough, Georgia
Coordinates:	33.45°N -84.145°W
Built:	1823
Architect:	F.P. Heifner, F.P.
Architecture:	Queen Anne, Colonial Revival
Added:	February 20, 2009
Area:	25acres
Refnum:	09000054

The Lawrenceville Street Historic District, in McDonough, Georgia, is a 25acres historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It included 27 contributing buildings and a contributing structure.^[1]

It consists of houses along a street which arcs northeast and east from the Henry County Courthouse. These include:

• House at 34 Lawrenceville Street (c.1900), a New South cottage with "the complex massing of a Queen Anne cottage and a central hall"
• C.W. Walker House (1888), 56 Lawrenceville Street, a two-story, three-bay Georgian
• House at 61 Lawrenceville Street (c.1890), a central-hall plan house with a Greek Revival-style porch and a steeply pitched Gothic Revival-style cross-gable roof
• House at 97 Lawrenceville Street (1904), "an excellent example of a Georgian-plan cottage"
• House at 215 Lawrenceville Street (1916), Renaissance Revival-style^[1] This is the Turner House, pictured above.

However, as of 2019, the first three of these have been demolished.

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=09000054}} National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lawrenceville Street Historic District ]. National Park Service. Steven Moffson . William Blankenship . September 10, 2008 . March 31, 2018.