{"nrhp_refnum":"00000390","name":"Fort Valley State College Historic District","other_names":["Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School","Fort Valley State University Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Pear St. and State University Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Valley","county":"Peach County","state":"GA","lat":32.539316848000055,"lon":-83.89499581099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 16-acre historic college district on the Fort Valley State University campus in Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia. It holds eleven contributing buildings, mostly brick Georgian Revival, built from the 1890s to 1952 around a landscaped quadrangle.","why_significant":"The district contains the oldest buildings of what began as Fort Valley High and Industrial School, later a state college for African-Americans. Most of the buildings were designed by the New York firm Ludlow and Peabody with Episcopal Church and philanthropic support. The surviving buildings show the institution's growth from a church-affiliated school to a state college in 1939, and they form a consistent Georgian Revival campus.","narrative":"Sixteen acres of the Fort Valley State University campus in Fort Valley, Georgia, make up this historic district, which centers on a landscaped quadrangle. Eleven contributing buildings, a historic water tank and the quadrangle itself survive from the school's early decades. The oldest is the Anderson House, a frame residence from the 1890s, followed by Huntington Hall, a girls' dormitory finished in 1908 with student labor. Most of the other brick buildings, dating from 1925 to 1952, are in the Georgian Revival style. The New York firm Ludlow and Peabody designed Carnegie Hall, Peabody Building, Founders Hall, Ohio Hall and Bishop Hall. Patton Hall and the former College Center, now St. Luke's Episcopal Church, were designed by Stanislaw Makielski. The campus grew from Fort Valley High and Industrial School, which had ties to the Episcopal Church's American Church Institute for Negroes, and became a state college in 1939. The buildings record that history of African-American higher education, even though many interiors have been altered for new uses.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ludlow and Peabody (New York); Stanislaw Makielski; W. J. J. Chase; Ivey and Crook","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings are mostly in use for college offices, classrooms and dormitories, and a former student center is now an Episcopal church. Huntington Hall needs restoration and is not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.436734-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000390.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209245","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/peach-county/fort-valley-state-college-historic-district-00000390/"}