These residences are an especially well-preserved group of the houses built by a local development company, the Lawrenceville Improvement Company, for railroad workers at the Atlantic and Danville Railroad. The plain two-story frame buildings with one-story rear ells have spacious one-story, shed-roof porches for summertime living in the era before air-conditioning.
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