{"nrhp_refnum":"00000639","name":"Cheek-Spruill House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5455 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dunwoody","county":"DeKalb County","state":"GA","lat":33.94829856400003,"lon":-84.33411910499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, wood-frame gabled-ell farmhouse at 5455 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody, DeKalb County, Georgia, built about 1907 for Bunyan B. Cheek. Two relocated outbuildings, a smokehouse and a corn crib, are also on the lot.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a good and rare example of a gabled-ell farmhouse in Georgia, retaining its original doors, moldings, stairway and porches. It is also unusual because it was built as one story, then jacked up and a new first floor built beneath it. It is the only surviving historic house at the central crossroads where Dunwoody grew up around a railroad and two roads.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road and Mount Vernon Highway, this two-story white clapboard farmhouse was built around 1907 for Bunyan B. Cheek, a member of the family that helped shape Dunwoody. It has a three-gable roof, two chimneys, and porches on both floors. Family accounts say it began as a one-story house, which was later raised so a new first floor could be built beneath it, a method also used on the Cheek family's own house across the street. Original stairs, doors, moldings and porch columns survive. The house is a rare Georgia example of the two-story gabled-ell type and one of the few two-story rural houses of its kind. It also faced the railroad that led to the village's founding in the 1880s, and it is the last historic house at the old center of Dunwoody. A preservation group rehabilitated it in 1999, and it now serves as a meeting hall and tea room.","period_of_significance":"1907-1950","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER/gabled-ell type farmhouse","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1999 for reuse as a meeting hall, historical organization facility and tea room.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.71998-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00000639.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000639/857d8eba6f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000639/857d8eba6f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Melsner4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheek-Spruill_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Melsner4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheek-Spruill_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207756","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134296424"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dekalb-county/cheek-spruill-house-00000639/"}