The Cordele Commercial Historic District is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

Cordele, Georgia Cordele is a city in and the county seat of Crisp County, Georgia. The population was 11,165 at the 2010 census, and 10,220 in 2020. Cordele calls itself the watermelon capital of the world. History 19th century Cordele was incorporated on ...

, US which was listed on the

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in 1989. The listing included 66

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and a

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. The district is roughly bounded by Sixth Ave., Sixth St., Ninth Ave., and Fourteenth St. It includes the Cordele Carnegie Library, a Carnegie library designed by J.W. Golucke & Co. which was built in 1903. With The 1907 Masonic Lodge was designed in Beaux Arts style by architect T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. Cordele Post Office 2015

It includes a

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building (1912–13) credited to

James Knox Taylor James Knox Taylor (October 11, 1857 – August 27, 1929) was Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1897 to 1912. His name is listed ''ex officio'' as supervising architect of hundreds of federal buildings b ...

, Supervising Architect of the U. S. Treasury, which is separately listed on the National Register as United States Post Office (Cordele, Georgia).

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Crisp County, Georgia Italianate architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Buildings and structures completed in 1888 {{CrispCountyGA-NRHP-stub