{"nrhp_refnum":"00001476","name":"Stone Mountain Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Stone Mountain Cemetery, Stone Mountain Memorial Park, Lucie St. CSX RR, VFW Dr., and Stone Mtn City","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stone Mountain","county":"DeKalb County","state":"GA","lat":33.80490138000005,"lon":-84.16969611750108,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Black","Entertainment/Recreation","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A railroad town historic district at the base of Stone Mountain in central DeKalb County, Georgia, with residential, commercial and community buildings from the 1830s through about 1950, including the African-American neighborhood of Shermantown.","why_significant":"The district preserves a railroad-strip town whose buildings are often built of local Stone Mountain granite. It includes a range of Georgia house types and styles, plus landmarks such as the c. 1857 depot, churches and the cemetery. The text also covers its Civil War experience and the development of Shermantown, its historic African-American neighborhood.","narrative":"Stone Mountain Historic District is a railroad town at the foot of the great granite monadnock for which the city is named, in east central DeKalb County, Georgia. Laid out along the Georgia Railroad line, it holds 275 contributing resources, among them a continuous row of brick and granite commercial buildings on Main Street, a granite depot begun around 1857, a brick trolley barn, churches, and a cemetery dating to about 1850. Local granite appears in buildings, curbs, retaining walls and steps. Houses range from Greek Revival homes of the 1850s to 1870s through Folk Victorian, Craftsman and English Vernacular Revival examples, along with common Georgia house types such as the I-house and gabled-ell cottage. The oldest surviving building is the Andrew Johnson House, built about 1836, later a hotel and Confederate hospital. Shermantown, south of downtown, grew from the late 1860s as the African-American community, with small frame houses, churches and stores. The district reflects the town's growth as a rail and granite shipping center.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Colonial Revival/Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Folk Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Many buildings remain in use, including the Andrew Johnson House as a restaurant and the Maddox filling station as a meeting place. One frame former grocery store is described as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.305356-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/00001476.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001476/b106261642-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001476/b106261642-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Mayer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stone_Mountain,_Georgia_downtown.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Mayer</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:Stone_Mountain,_Georgia_downtown.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207814","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141756649"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dekalb-county/stone-mountain-historic-district-00001476/"}