The North Main Street Commercial Historic District in
Statesboro, Georgia is a
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
that was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It includes eight adjacent
contributing buildings
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
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.
[ With (see photo captions page 10 in text).]
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.
[
Statesboro was the subject of a wider survey of historic resources completed at the same time as the NRHP nomination for the district.]
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Italianate architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
Chicago school architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
Buildings and structures completed in 1900
National Register of Historic Places in Bulloch County, Georgia
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