Historic Green Street Walking Tour
Take a step back in time by embarking on a walking tour of Historic Green Street in downtown Gainesville, Georgia. This enchanting tour will let you picture what the tree lined Green Street was like in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Historic Green Street walking tour map is available in print and ready for pick up at the Gainesville Visitor Center!
The Story of Green Street
Gainesville was founded in 1821, first known as a stopping place for Native Americans and wandering traders as Mule Camp Springs.
In 1828, gold was discovered in the region! Gainesville became the trading center for miners, merchants, and professionals; taverns, stores and offices erected around the square. After 1870, the first railroad reached the town. The rails greatly stimulated business; including a prosperous cotton market.
Green Street became the prime residential district; it was elevated above the business area, was level for a considerable distance, and much was well wooded. It served as a stage coach and freight route to the mining regions, and locally, it was a pleasant way to get to the Town Spring, known then as Gower’s Spring.
Beginning about 1880, many fine homes were built along the street. For over fifty years it was known to visitors as one of the outstanding residential neighborhoods in Northeast Georgia. The following description is quoted from the State Department of Natural Resources creating Green Street a Historic District:
“Gainesville’s major thoroughfare, Green Street, is a broad, tree lined street with a predominance of Victorian and Neo-Classical Revival residences dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although Gainesville has other areas worthy of preservation, rapid commercial and civic building development has forced this district into its own separated area. Architecturally, Green Street has one of the finest relatively untouched group examples of Neo-classical architecture in North Georgia.”
Green Street Homes
North:
- 380 Green Street: Boone Garner Norton House
- 404 Green Street: Lathem Barrett Moore House
- 424 Green Street: Hosch House
- 434 Green Street: Nalley Martin House
- 446 Green Street: Smith Palmour Estes House
- 454 Green Street: Burns Moss Palmour House
- 466 Green Street: Barrett Whitehead Moore House
- 502 Green Street: Redwine House
- 616 Green Street: Garner Hulsey House
- 634 Green Street: Adams Smith Edmondson Ward House
- 700 Green Street: Dixon Rudolph House
- 718 Green Street: Parker Jackson House
- 736 Green Street: Brown Milican House
- 746 Green Street: Longstreet Newton House
- 756 Green Street: Miller Banks House
South:
- 635 Green Street: Dunlap Burroughs House
- 625 Green Street: Charter Smith House
- 605 Green Street: Riley Newman Quinlan House
- 539 Green Street: Pruitt Wheeler McBrayer House
- 529 Green Street: Robertson Thurmond House
- 517 Green Street: Turner Daniel Delong House
- 505 Green Street: Dorsey Plaginos Ellard House
- 439 Green Street: Finger House
- 431 Green Street: Dillard Swan Hawkins Hunter House
- 427 Green Street: Adams House
- 417 Green Street: Wallace House
- 411 Green Street: Baker White Sheridan House
- 403 Green Street: Turner Estes House
- 393 Green Street: Matthews Norton House