{"nrhp_refnum":"02000036","name":"Siloam Junior High School","other_names":["Nathanael Greene Academy"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"473 GA 15S","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siloam","county":"Greene County","state":"GA","lat":33.53209342800005,"lon":-83.07598285999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story red brick school building at 473 Highway 15 South in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia, built in 1929 with Craftsman and Colonial Revival elements. A contractor from Union Point, Earl Overton, built it, and it is now home to Nathanael Greene Academy.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good, largely intact example of a 1920s Craftsman-inspired rural school, with original exterior details, auditorium and interior finishes. It is also significant in education as Siloam's only public elementary/junior high school for white students, one of Georgia's earliest schools to use the name \"junior high\", and the county's only historic school building still used as a school.","narrative":"Siloam Junior High School is a one-story red brick school building on Highway 15 South in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia. Completed in 1929 after the town's wooden schoolhouse burned in 1928, it was paid for by a $10,000 bond issue and built by contractor Earl Overton of Union Point. Low gabled roofs, shed dormers, overhanging eaves, wood-columned porticos and 9/9 windows give it a Craftsman look, and an attached auditorium retains a painted curtain from the 1930s. Inside, pressed-tin ceilings, oak floors, wainscoting and original chalkboards survive. The school served grades one through nine for white students until the junior high grades were moved to Greensboro in the 1940s, and later consolidation ended its public role. Since 1969 it has housed a private academy, making it the only historic school building in the county still used as a school. Its simple, house-like design reflects how small Georgia communities built functional schools in the 1920s.","period_of_significance":"1929-1952","architect_builder":"Unknown (the narrative names Earl Overton of Union Point as contractor and Ed Eaves as brick mason)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/Classical Revival; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements/Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a school; operates as a private academy, with the original building in continuous school use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.167195-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000036.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208487","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/greene-county/siloam-junior-high-school-02000036/"}