This area northeast of the town center was the middle- and upper-class neighborhood for decades. An eclectic mix of period-styled houses brings considerable variety to the district. Attorney, businessman, and real estate developer G. D. Tarlton built the largest of the many Queen Anne houses in this district at 211 N. Pleasant Street. The two-and-a-half-story frame house of 1895 has cross-gable roofs, with each gable stepping forward into compound gables, a wraparound porch, and a square tower with a pyramidal roof. The large property once included a stable, coach building, grape arbor, orchard, and garden.
Several Queen Anne houses dating from the mid-1890s line the 100 block of Corsicana, the most notable being the Johnson-Thompson House of 1896 constructed by builder Tom Sowell at 106 Corsicana. The two-story frame house has a corner tower with a bell-curve roof, and classical colonnettes support the wraparound porch. Civic leader and developer A. J. Thompson built a simple house at 108 Corsicana, shipping in the first carload of milled lumber, and planted trees along the length of Corsicana Street.
At 313 Craig Street the large Colonial Revival house (c. 1900) for Will Bond dated from Hillsboro’s cotton boom days. The two-story house has a double gallery carried on full-height columns that wraps around one corner.