- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Boykin Building
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Boykin, Francis, 1745-1821
Boykin, Samuel, 1786-1848 - Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Carroll County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Carroll County
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Carroll County
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Carroll County, Carrollton, 33.58011, -85.07661
- Medium:
- color slides
commercial buildings
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- 1894 Boykin Building in Carrollton before restoration. The Boykin Building (108-110 Adamson Square) was built between 1890 and 1895 on the site of the former Carroll House Hotel, in the heart of the Carrollton Downtown Historic District. It housed a variety of businesses over the years, including The People’s Bank, West Georgia Bank, McGee’s Bakery, several grocery stores, a soda fountain, and a pizza restaurant. The Boykin Building exhibits typical characteristics of the Commercial style including large display windows, second floor arched windows, and decorative brickwork. Businesses downtown during the historic period included hardware stores, grocery stores, general stores, barbershops, professional offices, and restaurants. Adamson Square lies at the intersection of Newnan (east), Alabama (west), Bradley (south), and Rome (north) streets. The square features four small landscaped islands near the intersection of the district’s main arteries. The buildings surrounding the square include one- and two-story attached and one- and two-story freestanding brick buildings that date from the late 19th century through the early 20th century and reflect the Commercial style of architecture. The buildings were constructed along front lot lines and are flush with the sidewalks. The rows of attached stores feature one- to two-story height, decorative brick detailing along the cornices and above doors and windows, flat-arched windows, recessed storefronts, and large display windows. The Carrollton Downtown Historic District contains much of the historic commercial development in downtown Carrollton along with a variety of community landmark buildings that developed from the early 1870s-1956 based on the earlier 1829 town plan. The district is significant in the area of architecture for its collection of good, representative examples of commercial building styles and types typical of small Georgia towns in the late-19th and early-to-mid-20th centuries and for the community landmark buildings typical of small Georgia towns. Variant names include: Boykin Building
110 Adamson Square. See ref # 07000378 (Carrollton Downtown Historic District) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx , and [no author]. “Historic Property Information Form: Boykin Building." Unpublished document on file at the Georgia Office of Historic Preservation, Atlanta, GA. 1999. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_489
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_489#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_489/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
