{"nrhp_refnum":"01000740","name":"Siloam Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly centered on Main St., Union Point Hwy., and Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siloam","county":"Greene County","state":"GA","lat":33.53602664400006,"lon":-83.08135160284763,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural crossroads town district of about 100 acres in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia, made up of houses, brick commercial buildings, churches and a cemetery. It contains 42 contributing and 11 noncontributing resources dating mainly from 1878 to 1940.","why_significant":"The district is significant for architecture because its houses, commercial blocks and churches represent styles and types common across Georgia in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is significant for commerce as a cotton shipping center whose downtown remains intact. It is also significant for community planning because the crossroads town plan, shaped by the railroad, survives.","narrative":"Siloam is a small crossroads community in rural Greene County, Georgia, about halfway between Atlanta and Augusta. Its historic district covers roughly 100 acres of houses, a small brick downtown, two historic churches and a city cemetery established in 1878. Most houses are modest frame dwellings with Folk Victorian ornament, including Georgian-plan, gabled-ell and saddlebag cottages and a few Craftsman bungalows. Downtown buildings along Main Street have corbeled brickwork, cast-iron storefronts and Italianate detailing. The Gothic Revival Baptist church of 1896 and the Colonial Revival Presbyterian church from the early 1900s anchor Church Street. The town grew after a railroad depot opened in 1889 and made Siloam a shipping point for cotton. Its economy declined with the boll weevil, the end of tenant farming, the Great Depression and the end of rail service in 1927. The district was listed for its architecture, commerce and community planning, and because the town's original layout and buildings remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1878-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Queen Anne), Classical Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian, Georgian-plan, center-hall-plan, gabled-ell and saddlebag cottages","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions include single dwellings, specialty stores, religious facilities and a cemetery; little has been built since 1940 except two gas stations/convenience stores and some nonhistoric houses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.560907-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01000740.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000740/271059b392-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000740/271059b392-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siloam_Historic_District_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Siloam_Historic_District_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208485","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloam_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55633196"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/greene-county/siloam-historic-district-01000740/"}