{"nrhp_refnum":"02000190","name":"Donalsonville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Seaboard RR line, W. Thirt St., and Morris and S. Tennille Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Donalsonville","county":"Seminole County","state":"GA","lat":31.04241751050003,"lon":-84.88219374316745,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Industry","Transportation","Health/Medicine","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown historic district in Donalsonville, the seat of Seminole County in southwest Georgia, containing commercial, government, institutional and industrial buildings from 1889 to 1950. It has 55 contributing and 26 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its intact late 19th to mid-20th century commercial, industrial and community landmark buildings, including the Beaux Arts courthouse. It also reflects the town's railroad-era plan of 1889 and its role in commerce, peanut processing, health care and county government. Seminole Memorial Hospital is noted as a rare property type in Georgia.","narrative":"Downtown Donalsonville, in the far southwest corner of Georgia, grew from a gridiron plan laid out in 1889 as the Alabama Midland Railway came through land owned by J. E. Donalson. The district holds attached one- and two-story brick stores along West Second Street with display windows, transoms and corbeled cornices. Its landmarks include the 1922 Beaux Arts Seminole County Courthouse by William J. J. Chase, the Oceola Hotel built between 1906 and 1910 and designed by Dennis and Dennis of Macon, and the Olive Theater. Two agricultural industrial complexes, the Planters Products Company and the Donalsonville Grain and Elevator Company, processed peanuts shipped by rail. Seminole Memorial Hospital, built about 1940, served both white and Black patients, though under segregation, until it closed in the late 1960s. Together these resources show how the town developed as the commercial, governmental and industrial center of Seminole County between 1889 and 1950.","period_of_significance":"1889-1950","architect_builder":"William J.J. Chase (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Beaux Arts; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Commercial Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions include specialty stores, a financial institution, restaurants, manufacturing and industrial storage, the courthouse and rail-related uses. The Oceola Hotel's windows are boarded up, and the Olive Theater is owned by an arts council planning its restoration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.563665-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000190.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000190/ede8743045-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000190/ede8743045-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donalsonville_City_Hall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</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:Donalsonville_City_Hall.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209443","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donalsonville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29094091"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/seminole-county/donalsonville-historic-district-02000190/"}