Downtown Waycross Historic District

Historic district in Georgia, United States

United States historic place


Downtown Waycross Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


31°12′35″N 82°21′36″W / 31.209722°N 82.36°W / 31.209722; -82.36
Area	50 acres (20 ha)
Architect	Taylor, James Knox; Et al.
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Modern Movement, Italianate
NRHP reference No.	92000125^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 20, 1992

The Downtown Waycross Historic District in Waycross, Georgia is a 50-acre (20 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.^[1]

It includes the Post Office, the Phoenix Hotel among totals of 47 contributing buildings, two other contributing structures, two contributing sites, and three contributing objects in the district.^[2]

Also the Bunn Building was Waycross's first "skyscraper", among the first reinforced concrete buildings in the state. It is a five-story building which was home for offices and a Masonic Lodge.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Downtown Waycross Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved November 7, 2019. With accompanying 22 photos from 1992.