Hartwell Commercial Historic District

The Pure Oil Service Station in Hartwell, Georgia, on Howell St. at Jackson St., was built in 1932. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It has also been known as "White's Service Station & Muffler Shop" and "Willie's Service Station and Muffler shop". It is a one-story brick structure with styling derivative of English Tudor Revival architecture.

Hartwell is a city in Hart County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,469 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Hart County.

The Hart County Library is a single branch public library serving the population of Hart County, Georgia, United States. It is located in Hartwell at 150 Benson Street. In 2016 the library was named Georgia's Public Library of the Year.Hart County Library is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia. Any resident in a PINES supported library system has access to the system's 10.6 million book collection. The library is also serviced by GALILEO, a program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text.

The Charles I. Kidd House, located at 304 W. Howell St. in Hartwell, Georgia, was built in 1896. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It is a two-story frame structure with Queen Anne architectural influences. Also known as the Bailey Residence, the listing includes three contributing buildings and a contributing structure: the property includes a historic brick greenhouse, a historic frame garage, and a historic frame chicken house.Charles I. Kidd was owner and manager of a livery business in downtown Hartwell.

The Witham Cotton Mills Village Historic District is a 18 acres (7.3 ha) historic district in Hartwell, Georgia. The district included 47 contributing buildings along Liberty Circle, Jackson, and Webb Streets in Hartwell, including Bungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian, and vernacular Victorian architecture.It includes multiple "two-family, wood-framed, weatherboarded housing units with their simple shed-roofed porches and double entrances" which are "typical of much of Georgia's mill housing. The one-story and two-story variations on what is basically the same housing unit are frequently found, as in the district, in the same mill village in order to provide a variety of living spaces for different size families. The single-family brick bungalows in the district, built in the early 20th century for supervisors and their families, serve to document the different living accommodations frequently provided within a mill village for mill management. The few small Victorian houses absorbed into the mill village as it was constructed contrast with the unrelenting sameness of the housing built by the mill for its workers. Although not much larger than some of the mill housing units, these small cottages have modest individual touches, an L-shaped plan with a bay window in one, a gable-end sunburst design in another."

The Benson Street-Forest Avenue Residential Historic District is a historic district in Hartwell, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It is located roughly along Benson St. from Forest Ave. to Adams St. and along Forest Ave. from Railroad St. to Garrison Rd. It includes Bungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian, and Victorian Eclectic architecture. It included 46 contributing buildings on about 75 acres (30 ha).Its 1985 NRHP nomination asserts "The district is significant as one of three intact historic residential areas in Hartwell and one which contains many of its oldest and grandest houses. It documents the building materials, types, styles, and construction technologies typically found in small northeast Georgia towns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The district contains one of Hartwell's few extant antebellum houses. It provides excellent examples of a variety of Victorian Eclectic and Bungalow/Craftsman residences. Among the Victorian Eclectic houses are a number with considerable Queen Anne detailing including balconies, turrets, bay windows, tall chimneys, and decorative shinglework. Other smaller Victorian Eclectic-style houses provide examples of modestly detailed cottages with a minimum of porch and gable-end trim. A number of the Craftsman-style dwellings and some earlier houses "updated" with Craftsman-style porches were constructed by the Temple family, Hartwell's extremely important family of builders, building-supply dealers and architects whose businessshaped the community's built environment."It was also deemed significant in social history and in history of community planning and development.Notable Victorian "mansions" in the district include: Skelton House, with asymmetrical massing and a Classical Revival two-story entrance portico, home of judge Carey Skelton, who was Georgia's Solicitor General and was Judge of the Fourth Circuit; McCurry House, with one-story wraparound porch, and Queen Anne-style massing, turrets, and trim; Linder House, similar to McCurry House.

The Franklin Street-College Avenue Residential Historic District is a historic district in Hartwell, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.The district is roughly bounded by Johnson, Maple, Franklin and First, and Carter Sts. It includes 29 contributing buildings on 20 acres (8.1 ha). It includes some commercial buildings and the brick Works Progress Administration-built community clubhouse at the corner of Howell and Richardson, as well as Victoria eclectic and Craftsman bungalow houses.

The McCurry-Kidd House, located at 602 W. Howell St. in Hartwell, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It is a two-story, brick, Georgian-revival house built in c.1920-24. It was a home of Dr. Edgar McCurry (1877-1962).It is located on the north side of Howell Street near its intersection with Franklin Street. It was designed by architect Willis Irwin. Its NRHP nomination identified it as the only example of Georgian Revival style in Hartwell.The listing included a second contributing building.There is also a "McCurry House" included in the Benson Street-Forest Avenue Residential Historic District in Hartwell.

The Adams—Matheson House, located at 116 Athens St. in Hartwell, Georgia, was built in 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It is a one-story Victorian Eclectic frame house built in 1900 which had later alterations including a Craftsman-influenced porch. It has a large gable on its front facade which is covered with fish-scale shingles and has a cut and turned bargeboard.

The Roscoe Conklin Linder House in Hartwell, Georgia is a Craftsman bungalow which was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It is a one-and-a-half-story brick veneer house, built to a design by Leila Ross Wilburn.Roscoe Conklin Linder served as mayor of Hartwell in two terms. The NRHP nomination explains its significance as:The Linder House is architecturally significant as a good intact example of a Bungalow with Craftsman design features. Its low massing, broad gable roof, wide front and side porch with squat columns, fenestration patterns, and exposed rafter and roof brackers are all characteristics of the Craftsman style as it was interpreted locally in Hartwell. Its architectural significance is enhanced from associations with the builder, John William Temple, and the architect, Leila Ross Wilburn, who provided a pattern book design. John William Temple belonged to the Temple family of builders, designers, and contractors who built or remodeled many homes and buildings in Hartwell during the early 20th century. Leila Ross Wilburn was Georgia's first woman architect who specialized in pattern book designs for homes.

The H. E. Fortson House, at 221 Richardson St. in Hartwell, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It was built around 1913. It is a one-story frame house with a hipped roof and a wrap-around shed-roofed porch. It was deemed "important in local black/social history for its association with the Reverend H. E. Fortson" and its NRHP nomination provides:Fortson served as minister of the Hartwell First Baptist Church in the early twentieth century and preached at other Baptist churches in Hart County during his career. He was a prominent minister and teacher in the Rome community of Hartweil. Traditionally, churches were among the most important social and cultural institutions in black communities, and ministers were among the prominent figures in these communities; the role played by Fortson in the Rome section of Hartwell is no exception. / Architecturally, the Fortson House is significant as an example of the type of house built for and lived in by relatively prominent middle-class black citizens of Hartwell in the early 20th century. This type of modest, straightforward house, with its simple arrangement of rooms around a central hall and its wrap-around porch and hipped roof, typifies the housing found in many of Georgia's small-town black neighborhoods. Relatively few examples of this type of housing survive with their major features intact, making this house a good example of the type.

The Allie M. Best House, at 344 Athens St. in Hartwell, Georgia, is a Tudor Revival-style house built in 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.It is a two-story Tudor Revival house with a Craftsman interior. It was designed by local architect Luther Temple and was built by Walker and Jule Temple.It was deemed "architecturally significant as a rare example in Hartwell of an English Tudor-style house", and its grounds were deemed locally significant for their terraced landscaping done by Best.