North Main Street Historic District (Bolivar, Tennessee)

The North Main Street Historic District in Bolivar, Tennessee is a 35 acre historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It then included 25 contributing buildings and 11 non-contributing ones.

It includes portions of N. Main, Sycamore, Jefferson, Washing, and Water Streets.

Notable buildings include: <! copied from NRHP document, to be edited: 2. Kahn House (515 North Main Street): ca. 1867, Victorian cottage, 1% stories, frame, weatherboarded, decorative bargeboard, 20th century portico, designed by Fletcher Sloan. 3. Buchanan House "Mallory Manor" (505 North Main Street): 1867, 1 story frame, weatherboarded, porch with columns and arched brackets. 4. Thompson House "The Manse" (501 North Main Street): ca. 1860, Carpenter Gothic, 1% story, frame, weatherboarded, center gable, designed by Fletcher Sloan. 5. Wilson-Bradley House (427 North Main Street): ca. 1890, vernacular, 1 story, frame, clapboarded, stained glass windows, shingled gable, front porch with columns and pierced railing. 6. Vincent House (419 North Main Street): ca, 1860, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front porch with columns. 7. Mitchell House (411 North Main Street): ca. 1925, bungaloid, 1% story, frame, weatherboarded. 12. Doyle-Wheeler House (412 North Washington Street): ca, 1900, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front porch with slender, turned posts, 13. Fentress-Vincent House "The Gardens" (West Sycamore Street): 1871, Carpenter Gothic, 1% story, frame, weatherboarded, modern front porch, center gable, clustered chimney stacks, decorative bargeboard, designed by Fletcher Sloan, 14. Pierce House (314 North Washington Street): ca. 1900, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, modern front porch, aluminum siding, much altered, 16. Cross House (308 North Washington Street): ca. 1915, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, hipped roof, front porch with turned posts, 17. Pierce House (304 North Washington Street): ca, 1900, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front porch, external gable chimneys. 18. Rogers House (315 North Main Street): ca, 1890, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, shingled gable, front porch with turned posts. 21. Wheeler House (307 North Main Street): ca. 1895, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front porch with turned posts and tuned balusters. 22. Lockman-Brooks House (306 North Main Street): ca. 1890, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front door with side lights, front porch with slender posts, internal gable chimneys. 24. Bolivar-Hardeman County Library (North Main Street): ca. 1920, Colonia Revival, 1 story, brick, formerly Hardeman County Library, front portico with pediment and square pillars. 25. Durrett House "Greenberry Bright" (113 East Jefferson Street): 1867, vernacular, 2 stories, frame, weatherboarded, internal gable chimneys, later 1 story front porch, incorporates log portion dating from ca. 1835. 26. Ragon-Bradley House (402 North Main Street): 1915, bungaloid, 1% stories, frame, weatherboarded, shingled siding over front porch, center dormer. 28. Avent House "Magnolia Manor" (418 North Main Street): 1849, Greek Revival, 2 stories, brick, parapeted chimneys, front door with rectangular head and side lights, front porch with square pillars, 1 story brick dependency, ca. 1849, internal gable chimneys, modern front porch. 29. Wiggins House "Miller Cottage" (428 North Main Street): ca. 1890, vernacular 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front porch with slender columns. 31. Cox-Wiggs House (424 North Main Street): ca. 1890, Queen Anne, \h. story, frame, weatherboarded, polygonial tower, front porch. 32. Weems House (502 North Main Street): ca. 1910, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front porch with turned posts and balusters. 33. Stallings House (508 North Main Street): ca. 1900, vernacular, 1 story, frame, weatherboarded, front door with side lights, front porch with turned posts. 34. Prewitt House (516 North Main Street): ca. 1920, vernacular, \h stories, frame, weatherboarded, bungalow, center dormer, front porch with paired columns. 36. Dorris House (532 North Main Street): ca. 1900, vernacular, 2 stories, frame, weatherboarded, 1 story front porch. --->
 * Baker House (c.1849), also known as "Mansion House", at 517 North Main Street, is a Greek Revival house with a two-story portico having paired columns with volutes (see photo #1 in accompanying photos).