{"nrhp_refnum":"00000467","name":"Burge Farm","other_names":["Burge Plantation","Burge-Bolton House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by GA 142, Cook Rd., Morehouse Rd. and Sewell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newborn","county":"Newton County","state":"GA","lat":33.54399341100006,"lon":-83.72089186253318,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 603-acre rural historic district near Newborn in Newton County, Georgia, made up of three principal agricultural complexes, tenant houses, fields and an orchard. The earliest house dates to about 1830, and a large Classical Revival plantation house was built about 1920.","why_significant":"The excerpt provided does not include the Section 8 statement of significance. The description shows a long-lived plantation landscape that includes an 1830s central-hall house, a c. 1920 mansion designed by architect Merritt J. Morehouse after Homewood in Baltimore, tenant houses, barns and a slave cemetery.","narrative":"Burge Farm, also called Burge Plantation, is a 603-acre rural district near Newborn, Georgia, where farming has continued for nearly two centuries. It holds three main agricultural complexes, tenant houses, open fields, an orchard and a lake. The oldest building is the Burge-Bolton House, a plain one-story central-hall dwelling from about 1830. Around 1920 it was moved across Highway 142 to make room for a larger house, and the Bolton family later added rear wings and a full-width classical porch with Doric columns. The new plantation house, built on the original family site, was designed by architect Merritt J. Morehouse after Homewood, the Baltimore house of Charles Carroll, Jr. It has a five-part Palladian plan and a tetrastyle portico. Servants' cottages, barns, an overseer's cottage, a pump house and formal gardens complete the working complex. A cemetery near the tenant houses honors enslaved people and freedpeople buried on the property. Of the district's 34 resources, 27 contribute to its historic character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Merritt J. Morehouse (architect of the c. 1920 plantation house)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used for single-dwelling and agricultural purposes; some modern additions, including a conservatory and pavilions, are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.280673-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000467.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000467/97659dd234-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000467/97659dd234-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Quentin Melson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burge_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Quentin Melson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burge_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209170","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burge_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16966966"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/newton-county/burge-farm-00000467/"}