Cairo Commercial Historic District

Historic district in Georgia, United States

United States historic place


Cairo Commercial Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Buildings on South Broad Ave.
30°52′37″N 84°12′32″W / 30.876944°N 84.208889°W / 30.876944; -84.208889
Area	12 acres (4.9 ha)
Built	1866
Architectural style	Art Deco, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	94000525^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 26, 1994

The Cairo Commercial Historic District is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

It had 31 contributing buildings, mostly on North and South Broad Street, but also on Railroad Avenue and on Second Avenue and one on First Street.^[2]

It includes:

Citizens Bank (c. 1908), 128 South Broad Street, a Neoclassical Revival building with a vault design^[2]
115 South Broad Street, a three-story building with paired stone pilasters^[2]
Zebulon Theater (1936), 207 North Broad Street, a two-story, brick building with Art Deco influence^[2]
United States Post Office (1935), 203 North Broad Street, a Stripped Classical building built with funds from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (FEAPW, a Public Works Administration forerunner). It has a New Deal mural, "Products of Grady County", by Paul Ludwig Gill.^[2]
Three, one-story brick warehouses (1909) on Railroad Avenue^[2]
Cairo Depot (c.1880), formerly the Atlantic Coastline Depot, which in 1994 was the Cairo Police Station, a stucco-over-masonry building with overhanging eaves, brackets, and a large hipped roof.^[2]
W. B. Roddenbery Building where cane syrup was produced for Walter Blair Roddenbery's business originated by his father, Dr. Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery.^[3] Seaborn Roddenbery was the son and grandson, respectively.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Leslie N. Sharp (April 20, 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cairo Commercial Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved March 17, 2017. with 11 photos
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 7, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)