Stephen House 550 W. Main St.	Poole House 557 W. Main St.	Davis House 560 W. Main St.	Barksdale House 701 W. Main St.	Babb House 706 W. Main St.
Todd-Latimore House 714 W. Main St.	Eaddy House 727 W. Main St.	Gov. William Dunlap Simpson House 726 W. Main St.	Meeks House 738 W. Main St.	Thomas B. Daniel House 742 W. Main St.
Balle House 774 W. Main St.	Wright-Easterby House 780 W. Main St.	John Calvin Owings House 787 W. Main St.	Thomas C. Owings House 789 W. Main St.	Martin-Dial House 806 W. Main St.
Farrow-Humbert House 830 W. Main St.	Gelder-Roper House 831 W. Main St.	Hudgens-Harney House 842 W. Main St.	Wolff-Todd House 964 W. Main St.

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The Laurens Historic District contains 111 contributing properties, most of which were built between 1880 and 1940. The town of Laurens is the county seat of Laurens County, located in the Piedmont region of the state. The district includes the public square with the courthouse and surrounding commercial buildings, and extends to the north and west to include significant residential sections of Laurens. The district is an unusually intact collection of buildings of nineteenth and early twentieth century vernacular architectural design mixed with simple high-style examples. Although originally lined by antebellum residences (only two of which remain intact) on multi-acre lots, West Main Street experienced two periods of major development. The first period was from ca. 1885 to ca. 1915 and the second occurred between the World Wars. The buildings in the district display a wide range of architectural styles including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Romanesque Revival, Bungalow, Craftsman, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Neo-Classical. The area is also characterized by its large trees, well-kept yards, and granite retaining walls. The town and county of Laurens are named for South Carolina Revolutionary War patriot Henry Laurens. Laurens County was one of six counties created in 1785 from a division of the old district of Ninety-Six. By 1792 Laurens was the county seat. Listed in the National Register October 10, 1980; Boundary increase November 19, 1986.

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