Green Street Historic District

The Green Street Historic District is a historic district in Marion, Alabama. It is centered on West Green Street and includes examples of American Craftsman, Greek Revival, and Federal style architecture. It contains 33 structures, dating from the mid-1830s to the present, with 24 of them listed as contributing buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 1979.The district is architecturally important for its fine collection of antebellum homes, including 12 in the transitional Federal-Greek Revival style and one early example of the Gothic Revival. One structure, the Andrew Barry Moore House is listed on the Historic American Buildings Survey. Of the remaining contributing structures, two modest Victorian homes date from the late 19th century and nine Bungalow-influenced homes date from the early 20th century.The district is bounded on the east by downtown Marion, on the north by more recent residential structures, and on the west by rural countryside. The street which runs parallel to Green on the south contains additional architecturally significant structures, but they do not fit into the district because of their physical separation from Green Street. The clustering of homes along Green Street and the general lay of the land visually prescribe the district boundaries. Green Street forms a well-defined neighborhood district containing one- and two-story homes. The distance of the houses from the street and the size of the lots generally increases toward the western end of the district, away from town. The prominent building material is wood, being found on almost three-fourths of the structures. Six structures have brick exteriors, two have concrete block, and one stucco. The tree-lined street is the major western approach to the city, the only main artery which has been able to avoid commercialization.