Cordele Commercial Historic District

Roughly bounded by Sixth Ave., Sixth St., Ninth Ave., and Fourteenth St., Cordele, Georgia. County/parish: Crisp.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 06, 1989. NRIS 89000803.

66 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • See Also:US Post Office--Cordele

From Wikipedia:

Cordele Commercial Historic District

The Cordele Commercial Historic District is a 55 acres (22 ha) historic district in Cordele, Georgia, US which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The listing included 66 contributing buildings and a contributing structure.

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.

The 1907 Masonic Lodge was designed in Beaux Arts style by architect T. Firth Lockwood, Sr.

It includes a U.S. Post Office building (1912–13) credited to James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U. S. Treasury, which is separately listed on the National Register as United States Post Office (Cordele, Georgia).

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207710

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