HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS PAGE TWO
Caroline Avenue
Unique in the district is Caroline Avenue, a three-block span of shot-gun board-and-batten cottages, residences of servants who worked in the big houses on Government Street. While there are many lovely trees lining the streets of Old Dauphin Way, of special interest is the Duffee Oak on Caroline Avenue. It is the first tree to have a protective preservation bill passed in the State Legislature.
Lafayette Street
Three Gulf Coast cottages typify some of the earliest expressions of this type of residential architecture in the city: Numbers 20, 22 and 23 South Lafayette. They were residences of working-class people, rather than society's elite. The house at 23 South Lafayette was constructed in 1852 for a ship's carpenter and architect. Constructed in 1868, 20 South Lafayette was built for a steamship company clerk, and 22 South Lafayette, also constructed in 1868, was owned by a bookkeeper for a cotton factory.
Dauphin Street Corridor
This street is the major east-west route through the Old Dauphin Way and Midtown Districts. As the city expanded westward, the wealthiest citizens built their houses in this prominent corridor. The 1550 block of Dauphin, for example, illustrates the quality of the houses in this area. The house at 1551 Dauphin is the design of C.L. Hutchisson, Jr., and is done in the Classical Revival style with a red tile roof. At 1555, 1557, and 1565 Dauphin are large two-story houses of varying designs, yet each is inspired by the Classic Revival. Anchoring the end of the block at 1569 Dauphin is a much earlier house constructed in 1869 in the Gothic Revival style.
Top, Classical Revival; above, Gothic Revival.
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