{"nrhp_refnum":"01000642","name":"Brightwell Shotgun Row","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"366-376 Barber St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.96650937900006,"lon":-83.38536368099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of six double-shotgun houses at 366-376 Barber Street in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, built between about 1935 and 1940 by Helen Brightwell. The houses sit back-to-back in two rows of three, north of downtown.","why_significant":"The row is significant for architecture because double shotguns are rare in Clarke County and this back-to-back arrangement is the only one identified there. It is also significant for Black ethnic heritage and community planning, since the houses reflect African-American settlement in the New Town neighborhood in the first half of the 20th century.","narrative":"Six double-shotgun houses on Barber Street in Athens, Georgia, form a compact row built between about 1935 and 1940 by Helen Brightwell. Three face Barber Street and three face Crawford Avenue, a small unpaved lane at the rear, making a back-to-back arrangement that is the only one identified in Clarke County. Each house has weatherboard siding, a front-gable roof, brick chimneys and a full-width front porch. The houses were designed as duplexes but were converted to single-family use soon after construction. Double shotguns are scarce locally, and these six account for a notable share of those recorded on a 1947 insurance map. The row also stands in New Town, an African-American neighborhood that grew from the 1890s beside the Seaboard rail line to house workers for nearby industries. City directories show working-class Black tenants such as cooks, laundresses and laborers. Rehabilitated in 1997, the houses are now rented by students.","period_of_significance":"c.1935-1950","architect_builder":"Helen Brightwell (owner who built the houses); architect/builder listed as N/A","architectural_style":"Other: double-shotgun house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1997 and certified in 1999; the houses were converted to single-family use and are now rented by University of Georgia students. They had been vacant for many years before rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.023076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01000642.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000642/e2d2c5ae25-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000642/e2d2c5ae25-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brightwell_Shotgun_Homes,_photographer_facing_NE.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:Brightwell_Shotgun_Homes,_photographer_facing_NE.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000851","name":"Boulevard Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/boulevard-historic-district-85000851/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207424","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141737443"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/brightwell-shotgun-row-01000642/"}