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Charles Kernan Collection of Waverly Terrace documents

 

CSU 2012 Community House Genealogy Handbook Waverly Terrace.  Read More...

 

As a planned suburb, the neighborhood was laid out using a grid pattern and included all utilities and an elementary school.  Read More…

 

George Gunby Jordan (1846-1929) was one of Columbus’ most prominent industrialists, bankers, and land owners. Read More…

 

Opened in 1906, Secondary Industrial School was centrally located in Waverly Terrace .Read More…

One of Georgia’s leading architects, Thomas W. Smith (1860-1926) lived in and designed buildings for Waverly Terrace. Read More…

Five styles of architecture are on display in the Waverly Terrace Historic District: Spanish Mission, Craftsman, Neo-classical, Victorian, and Colonial Revival.  Read More...

     The year 1906 saw the opening of Columbus' first planned subdivision. On December 1, 1983, that subdivision became Columbus' second historic district.

At the turn of the century, the approximately twenty-five acres that became Waverly Terrace lay on the northern outskirts of what was then Columbus.

The Jordan Company, headed by G. Gunby Jordan, began surveying the land in 1905…         Read More...

 

National Register of Historic Places -1983 Nomination for Waverly Terrace link

 

 

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