{"nrhp_refnum":"01001537","name":"Manchester Community Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"105 E 2nd Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Manchester","county":"Meriwether County","state":"GA","lat":32.85203838100006,"lon":-84.61481617799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Colonial Revival brick community building at 105 E. Second Ave. in Manchester, Meriwether County, Georgia, completed in 1935 and designed by the Atlanta firm Daniell and Beutell.","why_significant":"It is significant in architecture as an intact Colonial Revival civic building of the New Deal era and as work of the Atlanta firm Daniell and Beutell. It is significant in politics and government and recreation because it was built with Federal Emergency Relief Administration money and served for decades as the city's meeting hall, polling place, library, USO headquarters and athletic venue.","narrative":"Built in 1935 in downtown Manchester, Georgia, this two-story red brick community building was funded with $15,000 from the city matched by federal relief money. Designed by the Atlanta firm Daniell and Beutell in the Colonial Revival style, it has a Palladian-inspired brick entrance portico with cement quoins, a theater-style ticket window, and a large upper-floor hall with a stage, dressing rooms, built-in bleachers, steel roof beams and a tongue-and-groove oak athletic floor. The basement level holds offices and open space. Over the years it hosted City Council meetings, elections for more than forty years, basketball tournaments, scout events, civic club meetings, Veterans Day ceremonies, a kindergarten, and a regional library that operated for about thirty years. During World War II it served as the local USO headquarters. It was also used for job and factory worker training. The 1935 to 1952 period reflects its role as the town's central gathering place and its New Deal origins.","period_of_significance":"1935-1952","architect_builder":"Daniell and Beutell, of Atlanta.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Deemed unsuitable for public use as a polling place in 1989; described as continuing multi-use until recent times and awaiting renovation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.94826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01001537.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001537/4892c9cd0b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001537/4892c9cd0b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manchester_Community_Building;_Manchester,_GA_(NRHP).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Manchester_Community_Building;_Manchester,_GA_(NRHP).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208971","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134391787"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/meriwether-county/manchester-community-building-01001537/"}