Royston Commercial Historic District

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The Royston Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Royston, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.The 6 acres (2.4 ha) listed area included 33 contributing buildings, which are mostly one- and two-story brick commercial structures with party walls.It runs between north-south Church Street on the west and the Southern Railroad tracks on the east.Among the most distinctive are the "Dorough Building (Carter Hardware), an extremely intact late Victorian structure with a fine corbeled cornice, an intact metal storefront, and a completely intact interior including a pressed metal ceiling and the P.C. Scarboro Building, a finely-detailed, early Ford dealership with a tiled pent roof supported by prominent brackets."

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