Birdwood (Thomasville, Georgia)

Thomas University is a private university in Thomasville, Georgia. It offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees.

The Thomas Night Hawks are the athletic teams that represent Thomas University, located in Thomasville, Georgia, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC). In the 2013–14 season, basketball returned to Thomas after a 13-year hiatus. In the inaugural game, the Nighthawks men were victorious over visiting Florida National University by a score of 82–71. In 2014, the school added a competitive dance team. In 2022, football was added.On July 1, 2022, Thomas announced that they would leave the Sun Conference to join the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC), starting in the 2023–24 academic year.

The Hollywood Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It is a 38 acres (15 ha) property with four contributing buildings, including its main house which is a Colonial Revival-style mansion built in 1928. The mansion was built for Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Devereux, who had owned the property since 1915 and had improved its main house, but that had burned in a fire on January 20, 1928. The new mansion, named "Hollywood", is a brick house with a green slate roof. The front of its central two-story portion has a pedimented portico with four Ionic columns. It presides from a grassy hill and is approached by a winding drive. Its red brick is laid in Flemish bond; white marble from the Georgia Marble Company of Tate, Georgia is used for keystones, quoins and trim.It was deemed significant for its architecture and for its use in entertainment/recreation, as used by Henry K. Devereux, who had retired from industry in 1911 and was then a harness horse fancier. He bred and trained harness racing horses at the Pastime Stables, near this property.The other contributing buildings include a manager/jockey's house (c.1890) and a board-and-batten caretaker's cottage (c.1920). The property also has a contributing structure and several non-contributing buildings and structures.The mansion was designed by architect John B. Thomas; it was expected to cost $75,000 to build and was built by Ezra Quarterman Stacey. The architect had practiced in New York then moved to the Florida and Georgia area around 1925. Other works by the architect include two projects in the Lake Wales Commercial Historic District, the Rhodesbilt Arcade (1926) and the Burns Arcade (1925-26 remodel).The property was 225 acres (91 ha) when Devereux bought it, then expanded to 442 acres (179 ha). After Devereux died in 1932, land was sold off for subdivisions and it was reduced to 38 acres in 1958.

The Gordon Avenue Historic District in Thomasville, Georgia is a 24 acres (9.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Its five contributing buildings are houses on large lots on Gordon Avenue, an avenue which radiates to the southeast of the center of Thomasville. The properties are the two lots before Junius Street and the three lots after, on the right, when heading south on Gordon, at numbers 924, 936, 1008, 1012, and 1104. The first two are Classical Revival buildings with monumental porticos having Doric columns.The properties were deemed significant for the architecture of the buildings, for the landscaping of the properties, and for its local history. It was asserted that Gordon Avenue was, in the late 1800s, "a popular street for driving carriages and bicycles, rivaling Paradise Park and Pinetree Boulevard in the beauty of its wooded areas."Note, the Gordon Avenue Apartments at 424 Gordon Ave. was also listed on the NRHP, in 1983.

The Millpond Plantation in Thomas County, Georgia near Thomasville was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.Its present main house was built during 1903-1905 and the complex was completed in 1910; its architects were noted Cleveland, Ohio architects Hubbell & Benes and landscape design was by Warren Manning. Its architecture is Mission/Spanish Revival. The listing included six contributing buildings and two contributing structures on 1,200 acres (4.9 km2).

East End Historic District in Thomasville, Georgia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was amended in 2003 with increases and decreases to its 13-acre (5.3 ha) area. Simple Craftsman-style bungalows are the most common.One justification for significance of the district is that it "is significant in the area of community planning and development as ... the earliest, documented, planned residential neighborhood in Thomasville and for representing the continued growth and development of a major working-class neighborhood in a community better known for its resort hotels and seasonal residences." Thomasville is asserted to be unique in Georgia "because development during the late 19th century was driven by the city's reputation as a winter resort town for wealthy Northerners", for whom hotels and large "'cottages'" were constructed. (Many examples of these are in the Paradise Park area, listed as Paradise Park Historic District in 1984.): 7 

Park Front, a house at 711 S. Hansell St. in Thomasville, Georgia, was built in 1891. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It has also been known as Charles Hebard House and as Frances Stone House. It was a winter residence for Charles S. Hebard. In 1969 it was owned by Frances Stone.It was perhaps designed by William Miller or by James Gribben, who both were active architects in the area.It is a two-and-a-half-story mansion with a two-story portico supported by four columns. Its front doorway has a simple architrave divided in three parts. It has dentils detailing its cornice and fascia. There is a small second-story porch within the portico.The "Park Front" name derived from its location across from Paradise Park.The house is also a contributing building in the Paradise Park Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1984.

The Gordon Avenue Apartments is an apartment building at 424 Gordon Avenue in Thomasville, Georgia which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a Tudor Revival building designed by Atlanta architects Daniell and Beutell and built in 1929.Note that Gordon Avenue Historic District, an NRHP-listed district consisting of five houses and their grounds, is further out Gordon Avenue.

Paradise Park Historic District is located in Thomasville, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 1984 with an increase in 2002. It consists of Thomasville's Paradise Park, and properties including 15 contributing buildings and one non-contributing building. The area, subdivided from the S. Alexander Smith estate, was known as "Yankee's Paradise" at the turn of the 20th century, when Northern visitors had winter homes and cottages in the area. Residents included George Forbes, owner of Forbes Furniture and Hardware; W.S. Keefer, president of the Thomasville Cigar Company; Charles Hebard, a Philadelphia-based lumber "magnate"; and Judge Strawbridge, a clothing distributor.The increase added the property at 502 South Broad Street as a contributing building and provided documentation justifying reclassification to "contributing" of a previously non-contributing building.At the time of National Register listing, "East Hansell" was the name of the street along the southeast side of the park. By 2013 the street was termed "South Hansell". The street continues as West Hansell across Broad Street.Contributing buildings include: Hebard House (1891 or 1899-1900), 711 East Hansell, likely constructed by builder William Miller,: 3  built as a winter residence for Charles S. Hebard. Separately listed on the National Register in 1970 as "Park Front". It is a two-and-a-half-story mansion with a two-story portico supported by four columns, enclosing a small second-story porch. Its front doorway has a simple architrave divided in three parts. It has dentils detailing its cornice and fascia. Keefer House, 817 South Hansell Street, a large Victorian Eclectic house, bordered by a white picket fence. Built in 1893. Originally owned by William Scott Keefer. William owned an ice plant in Thomasville.: 2 : 3  701 East Hansell: 3  110 East Hansell: 3  Buildings on others of the nine properties on East Hansell Street facing the park.: 7  Historic carriage house of one of the East Hansell Street properties. Perhaps this is the one property on East Loomis Street.: 7  900 South Broad: 3  Strawbridge House (1899), 704 South Broad, constructed by builder James Gribben.: 3  Tuck House (1940), 701 South Broad Street. One-story ranch house with "applied Greek Revival elements", built for Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Tuck, designed by Roderick Brantley. It serves as McDonald's area office. Not deemed to be historic in the original historic district, due to its date of construction, but later accepted. The property at 701 South Broad is bordered by an old wrought-iron fence.: 2  Neel House (1907), 502 South Broad Street, a two-story Neoclassical house with full-height portico and one-story porch with classical columns. Converted to apartments in 1930, damaged by fire in 1978, became a bed-and-breakfast inn sometime later. Not included in original historic district due to owner objection.

Bethany Congregational Church is a United Church of Christ house of worship located in Thomasville, Georgia in south Georgia's Thomas County. It was founded on February 1, 1891, by the American Missionary Association as the chapel and worship center of the Allen Normal and Industrial School, an educational institution for African American students. The school operated from 1885 to 1933, and the church remained after the school property was razed in 1935.In 1985, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who earned a divinity degree from Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut, accepted the pastorate of Bethany Congregational Church in 1955. He served as pastor of Evergreen Congregational Church in adjacent Grady County during 1957–59; Evergreen is also NRHP-listed.

The Augustine Hansell House, also known as Jeffries House, is a historic home of exceptional quality in Thomasville, Georgia, United States. It was designed by architect John Wind, the leading architect of Thomas County, in Greek Revival style. A 1+1⁄2-story cottage, it was built during 1852–53 for Augustine Hansell. Hansell, who later (1869) was mayor of Thomasville, was a judge of the Superior Court of the Southern Judicial Circuit. He also organized the Thomas Reserves and was commander of a militia company of Thomas County. He was a lieutenant in the Thomas Reserves.The American Civil War did not bring fighting to Thomas County, with the closest battle being the Battle of Natural Bridge in Natural Bridge, Florida, 56 miles (90 km) away from Thomasville.The house is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame cottage, with the main house having four rooms in a center-hall plan. It has an overhanging portico supported by six square columns. It has two small windows centered in the gable front.Its interior is little-altered from the original and has Greek Revival details in its doorways, stairway, and four fireplaces with carved mantels.The addition of wings for a kitchen and a bedroom in 1927 did not detract from the architectural character of the house.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.Up to 1969 the house had remained in the same family and was then owned by a granddaughter of Augustine Hansell. It has been described as one of the "three best cottages" in Thomasville.

The Fletcherville Historic District is a 38 acres (15 ha) historic district which is roughly bounded by Siexas, Wright, S. College and W. Jackson St. in Thomasville, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The oldest houses in the district are along South College Street and Fletcher Street facing what was formerly a square at the center of Fletcherville. The square originally was the site of the Fletcher Institute and is now the location of Harper School, and with its open area it remains "a significant landscape feature of the district."The district includes the Arthur P. Wright House at 415 Fletcher Avenue, in the next block up from the square, which is separately listed on the National Register.Predominant architecture is Bungalow/Craftsman, Greek Revival, and Victorian Eclectic. Most of the buildings in the district are modest one-story wood-frame houses. Examples of two-story houses are at 427 Fletcher, 126 College, 519 West Jackson, and 116 Siexas. Many houses have a front porch or portico with bracketed posts or Doric or Ionic columns. Some have dormer windows or Palladian windows.The district also includes some non-contributing buildings including two modern church complexes, the Harper School, and several non-historic houses.