{"nrhp_refnum":"01001556","name":"Spotswood Hall","other_names":["Smith, Shelby, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"555 Argonne Dr., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.83710474000003,"lon":-84.40515671799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Spotswood Hall is a two-story, wood-frame Classical Revival house on a two-acre hilltop lot at 555 Argonne Drive in the Buckhead area of northwest Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1913 and attributed to architect A. Ten Eyck Brown, it was enlarged and remodeled by Philip Trammell Shutze in 1933.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent example of early 20th-century Classical Revival architecture and represents the work of two important Atlanta architects, A. Ten Eyck Brown and Philip Trammell Shutze. It is also significant in the area of art for the Oriental murals in the rotunda painted by Athos Menaboni in 1933. The 1933 remodeling kept Brown's exterior largely intact while Shutze redesigned the interior.","narrative":"Spotswood Hall is a two-story wood-frame house on a two-acre hilltop lot in Atlanta's Buckhead area. Built in 1913 for county commissioner Shelby Smith, its design is attributed to architect A. Ten Eyck Brown. The facade is dominated by a monumental pedimented portico with Ionic columns, set above a rusticated granite foundation and beneath a slate hipped roof. In 1933 architect Philip Trammell Shutze enlarged the house from about 3,600 to nearly 6,200 square feet, keeping the original exterior character while adding a rear porte cochere and gutting and redesigning the interior. New features included a curving cantilevered staircase, a paneled library, and a round entrance rotunda whose walls carry an Oriental-themed mural by painter Athos Menaboni, signed and dated 1933. The house is valued as a strong example of Classical Revival design, as the work of two prominent Atlanta architects, and for the preserved Menaboni murals. It remains a single-family residence with few changes since 1933.","period_of_significance":"1913; 1933","architect_builder":"Brown, A. Ten Eyck--architect (attributed); Shutze, Philip Trammel--architect; Menaboni, Athos--artist","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling; the interior and exterior have seen minimal changes since 1933, apart from a 1992 noncontributing garage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.896785-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01001556.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206136","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134314603"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/spotswood-hall-01001556/"}