The Dublin Commercial Historic District is a historic district roughly centered on Jackson Ave. and Lawrence St. in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...

in Laurens County, Georgia. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 2002. The district included 76 contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and one contributing object. It covers the historic core of the town of Dublin, which was incorporated in 1812 and was laid out in a gridiron pattern. Streets were named after U.S. presidents and after Revolutionary War and War of 1812 heroes. With . The town plan

is an example of the Sparta-type county seat plan. The Sparta plan features a central courthouse square, but the square is given greater prominence by aligning major streets to run directly towards its center. This may occur on all four sides of the square, or as is the case in Dublin, two streets may approach the center while others intersect at the corners. The town was laid out in a gridiron pattern with the courthouse at the east end of Jackson Avenue, the main east-west street in the central business district that runs directly to the center of the square. The nonhistoric Laurens County courthouse, constructed in 1962, occupies the west side of the square while the Federal Building and United States Courthouse onstructed in 1936 and later renamed for J. Roy Rowlandoccupies the east side.

Notable buildings include: *Christ Episcopal Church (1898), Gothic Revival * Carnegie Library (1904), Neoclassical style, designed by Atlanta architects Morgan and Dillon, separately NRHP-listed *First National Bank Building (1912),

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

, seven stories tall (the tallest building in the district).

References

External links

* Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Georgian architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Victorian architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Buildings and structures completed in 1893 Laurens County, Georgia {{GeorgiaUS-NRHP-stub