Historic Preservation in Georgia (2026)
20 rules on the books across Georgia, 20 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.
Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions
Historic-Cultural Monuments
How buildings, sites, and trees are nominated and designated as Historic-Cultural Monuments, the protections that follow, and the demolition-stay process.
Alpharetta
Significant RestrictionsThe City of Alpharetta designates historic properties through its seven-member Historic Preservation Commission under…
Read full rule →Atlanta
Significant RestrictionsAtlanta protects culturally significant buildings, sites and districts through five formal categories, from Landmark…
Read full rule →Bartow County
Significant RestrictionsThe Etowah Valley Historic District overlay protects historical and cultural artifacts and sacred locations of the…
Read full rule →Chatham County
Significant RestrictionsUnincorporated Chatham County designates historic districts and properties through the County Historic Preservation…
Read full rule →Columbus
Significant RestrictionsColumbus, Georgia's Board of Historic and Architectural Review protects places, districts, sites, buildings, structures…
Read full rule →DeKalb County
Significant RestrictionsDeKalb County can designate a building, structure, site, object or work of art, including monuments, as a protected…
Read full rule →Glynn County
Significant RestrictionsBefore any building in the St. Simons Village Design Review Overlay can be torn down, unincorporated Glynn County…
Read full rule →Gordon County
Significant RestrictionsIn unincorporated Gordon County, Georgia, a building, structure, site, or object becomes a designated historic property…
Read full rule →Roswell
Significant RestrictionsRoswell's Historic Preservation Commission designates local historic landmarks and administers Certificate of…
Read full rule →South Fulton
Significant RestrictionsSouth Fulton designates historic properties, cultural landmarks and historic districts only by a city council ordinance…
Read full rule →Spalding County
Significant RestrictionsUnincorporated Spalding County can designate an individual property or a district as a protected 'historic property'…
Read full rule →Stonecrest
Significant RestrictionsIn the City of Stonecrest, Zoning Ordinance Sec. 7.7.4(D) requires every development, building, and…
Read full rule →Walker County
Significant RestrictionsWalker County's Historic Preservation Commission can designate a building, site or object as a historic property when…
Read full rule →Augusta-Richmond County
Some RestrictionsAugusta-Richmond County makes it a crime to deface, injure or trespass on its named public monuments. Code Sec. 3-7-36…
Read full rule →Clayton County
Some RestrictionsClayton County can designate a building, structure, site, or work of art as a protected "landmark" if it is…
Read full rule →Cobb County
Some RestrictionsCobb County's historic preservation commission can designate landmarks worthy of preservation for architectural…
Read full rule →Dougherty County
Some RestrictionsThe Albany-Dougherty Historic Preservation Commission, created under Code § 2-12-10, can designate buildings, sites…
Read full rule →Macon Bibb County
Some RestrictionsMacon-Bibb County protects the monuments, memorials and historical markers at Rosa Parks Square by ordinance, barring…
Read full rule →Troup County
Some RestrictionsIn unincorporated Troup County, a property or district that the Board of Commissioners has designated historic by…
Read full rule →Forsyth County
Light RestrictionsForsyth County can't stop an owner from demolishing a documented historic structure, but Unified Development Code…
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