{"nrhp_refnum":"02000566","name":"Eastman Bus Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"305 College St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eastman","county":"Dodge County","state":"GA","lat":32.195118724000054,"lon":-83.17486977899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick bus station with telegraph office and manager's apartment at 305 College Street in Eastman, Dodge County, Georgia, built in 1945-1946 by John Taylor Wilbanks, plus a c.1946 rear garage/apartment.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare surviving rural Georgia bus station and the only known one in the state that incorporates a residence. It is tied to Eastman's transportation history through Greyhound and Western Union service. Its separate waiting room and restroom for African Americans preserve physical evidence of segregation.","narrative":"Built in 1945-1946 at the south end of Eastman's business district, this two-story brick building served as a bus station and Western Union telegraph office on the first floor, with the manager's family living upstairs. John Taylor Wilbanks, the local Greyhound agent, built it after outgrowing space in a gas station and drugstore. A rear addition followed in 1946, along with a garage and apartment behind the station. Buses stopped three or four times a day, and the station operated until 1983. The interior still holds the original ticket counter, men's and women's restrooms, a second-floor apartment, and a smaller waiting room and restroom designated for African Americans under segregation. The Georgia survey of over 50,000 properties identifies only three bus stations, and this is the only known one with a residence in its design. It was recognized for its architecture, its role in local transportation, and its record of segregated public facilities.","period_of_significance":"1945 - 1952","architect_builder":"John Taylor Wilbanks (builder, named in the significant dates; Architect/Builder field lists N/A)","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use. The City of Eastman bought it in 1999 and plans to rehabilitate it as a multi-purpose community building.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.686076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000566.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000566/cce1ea8587-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000566/cce1ea8587-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastman_Bus_Station,_Eastman,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</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:Eastman_Bus_Station,_Eastman,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207826","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134296544"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dodge-county/eastman-bus-station-02000566/"}