Canon Commercial Historic District

Depot St. between Bond Ave. & Broad St., Canon, Georgia. County/parish: Franklin.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 01, 1985. NRIS 85001681.

8 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Canon Commercial Historic District

The Canon Commercial Historic District in Canon, Georgia is a 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The listing included eight contributing buildings.

It includes the Canon Hotel, a two-story Georgian Revival-style building. and the W.F. Bowers Building, a one-story brick building built in the early 1890s, which, in 1985, had a "deteriorated Greek Revival-style porch at the Depot Street level that is supported by square brick columns. The central portal has a glass transom and a segmental arch and is flanked by a window on each side and four square brick wall pilasters. The porch has square wood columns and a wooden balustrade supported by square brick pillars."

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208034

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