{"nrhp_refnum":"01000500","name":"Stevens Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Along Stevens St., 1 blk. NW of Thomas County Courthouse","address_restricted":false,"city":"Thomasville","county":"Thomas County","state":"GA","lat":30.842510947500045,"lon":-83.98921083312447,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Education","Entertainment/Recreation","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historically African-American residential neighborhood along Stevens Street, one block northwest of the Thomas County Courthouse in Thomasville, Georgia. The gridiron plan was laid out in 1853 and the district holds 344 contributing resources, including houses, churches, a school, recreation buildings and a bridge.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be a good, intact example of an urban African-American neighborhood in Georgia, settled by freed slaves after the Civil War. It shows how geography and Jim Crow segregation shaped settlement, with working-class and middle-class households living on the same streets. It also contains representative house types such as shotgun, saddlebag and bungalow, plus community landmarks tied to religion, education and recreation.","narrative":"Stevens Street Historic District is a neighborhood of houses, churches, a school and recreation buildings just northwest of downtown Thomasville, Georgia. Its grid of streets was laid out in 1853, and a few white families built homes along the ridge of Stevens Street. After the Civil War, freed people from Thomasville and nearby counties settled the low-lying land, which white residents considered undesirable because of creeks and a railroad completed in 1868. Segregation limited where Black residents could live, so the community built its own institutions, including Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, built in 1894. Shotgun, saddlebag and hall-parlor houses sit alongside Craftsman bungalows, showing laborers and a growing middle class living in the same area. A 1938 concrete bridge, remaining alleys and dirt roads, and the railroad alignment also survive. The district was listed for its ethnic heritage, community development, architecture, education and religion, with significance running from about 1850 to 1951.","period_of_significance":"c.1850 to 1951","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Many vacant lots remain where houses and corner stores once stood. Abandoned buildings were torn down in the late 20th century, and the historic corner stores within the district no longer stand.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.909229-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01000500.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000500/4be7744993-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000500/4be7744993-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Roberts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:419_North_Stevens_St.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Roberts</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:419_North_Stevens_St.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209673","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30621998"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/thomas-county/stevens-street-historic-district-01000500/"}