Cairo Commercial Historic District
Historic district in Georgia, United States
United States historic place
Cairo Commercial Historic District | |
![]() Buildings on South Broad Ave. | |
30°52′37″N 84°12′32″W / 30.876944°N 84.208889°W / 30.876944; -84.208889 | |
Area | 12 acres (4.9 ha) |
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Built | 1866 |
Architectural style | Art Deco, Classical Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 94000525[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 26, 1994 |
The Cairo Commercial Historic District is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]
It had 31 contributing buildings, mostly on North and South Broad Street, but also on Railroad Avenue and on Second Avenue and one on First Street.[2]
It includes:
- Citizens Bank (c. 1908), 128 South Broad Street, a Neoclassical Revival building with a vault design[2]
- 115 South Broad Street, a three-story building with paired stone pilasters[2]
- Zebulon Theater (1936), 207 North Broad Street, a two-story, brick building with Art Deco influence[2]
- United States Post Office (1935), 203 North Broad Street, a Stripped Classical building built with funds from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (FEAPW, a Public Works Administration forerunner). It has a New Deal mural, "Products of Grady County", by Paul Ludwig Gill.[2]
- Three, one-story brick warehouses (1909) on Railroad Avenue[2]
- Cairo Depot (c.1880), formerly the Atlantic Coastline Depot, which in 1994 was the Cairo Police Station, a stucco-over-masonry building with overhanging eaves, brackets, and a large hipped roof.[2]
- W. B. Roddenbery Building where cane syrup was produced for Walter Blair Roddenbery's business originated by his father, Dr. Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery.[3] Seaborn Roddenbery was the son and grandson, respectively.
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g Leslie N. Sharp (April 20, 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cairo Commercial Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved March 17, 2017. with 11 photos
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 7, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
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External links
Media related to Cairo Commercial Historic District at Wikimedia Commons
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