{"nrhp_refnum":"00001475","name":"Cedartown Waterworks-Woman's Building-Big Spring Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Wissahickon Ave. and Bradford St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cedartown","county":"Polk County","state":"GA","lat":34.014452309000035,"lon":-85.25855634499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Politics/Government","Entertainment/Recreation","Other"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small historic district in Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia, at Wissahickon Avenue and Bradford Street. It combines an 1892 brick waterworks, a 1935-1936 fieldstone Woman's Building, and the landscaped Big Spring Park between them.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the waterworks is a rare, early surviving Georgia public works building with Romanesque Revival details. The Woman's Building is a WPA-funded Colonial Revival design by architect Odis Clay Poundstone and is tied to the woman's club movement. Big Spring Park is a picturesque landscape designed by the Cedar Valley Garden Club in 1930-1934, and the whole district reflects the city's public works and recreation history.","narrative":"Big Spring Park in Cedartown, Georgia, ties together two community landmarks: a municipal waterworks and a women's clubhouse. The brick waterworks, built in 1892 over a spring the city bought in 1853, has a three-part plan and Romanesque Revival details such as brick pilasters and a corbel table. It once pumped water and generated electricity for the town, and it still supplies the city's water. At the west end, the one-story Woman's Building of local fieldstone was built in 1935-1936 with Works Progress Administration support. Atlanta architect Odis Clay Poundstone designed it in the Colonial Revival style for the Cedartown Federated Woman's Club, and it still serves as a meeting place. Between them lies the park, landscaped from 1930 to 1934 by the Cedar Valley Garden Club, with a stone overflow channel, a low-arched bridge, benches and walkways. The district was recognized for architecture, landscape design, public works, recreation and women's history.","period_of_significance":"1892-1950","architect_builder":"Poundstone, Odis Clay","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Romanesque Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The waterworks still supplies the city's water, the park remains public, and the Woman's Building remains in use as a clubhouse and community building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.312444-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00001475.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001475/4dfd1fcfe0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001475/4dfd1fcfe0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Karl Ward (talk) (Uploads)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Spring_Park,_Cedartown,_Georgia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Karl Ward (talk) (Uploads)</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Big_Spring_Park,_Cedartown,_Georgia.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08000354","name":"Northwest Cedartown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/northwest-cedartown-historic-district-08000354/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209271","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedartown_Waterworks%E2%80%93Woman%27s_Building%E2%80%93Big_Spring_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16890163"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/polk-county/cedartown-waterworks-womans-building-big-spring-park-historic-district-00001475/"}