{"nrhp_refnum":"02000629","name":"Gartrell Family House","other_names":["Joseph Gartrell House","Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"854 Boyd Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tignall","county":"Wilkes County","state":"GA","lat":33.92456293500004,"lon":-82.77306576699993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A raised Georgian cottage with Greek Revival detailing, built about 1830 in southeast rural Wilkes County, Georgia, and moved in 1995 to the northern part of the county near Tignall, where it was rehabilitated.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare, early and highly intact rural example of the raised Georgian cottage type, which may be the only surviving example in Wilkes County. It also shows a vernacular expression of Greek Revival style and retains original hand-crafted materials. It is also tied to the Gartrell family, including Confederate congressman Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell.","narrative":"Built around 1830 in southeast rural Wilkes County, Georgia, this raised Georgian cottage is a one-story, nearly square house with a four-room central-hall plan, a low hipped roof and a hand-hewn, mortised-and-tenoned timber frame. Its Greek Revival character shows in the symmetrical windows, simple woodwork, trabeated front doorway and mantels. After sitting abandoned for about twenty-five years, it was moved in two sections to northern Wilkes County in 1995 to save it from demolition. The roof and chimneys were rebuilt with original materials, the house was set on a new raised basement, and a small rear addition holds the bathrooms and utilities. It was listed for its architecture: raised Georgian cottages make up far less than one percent of surveyed Georgia houses, and few houses of any type predate 1830. Joseph Gartrell is believed to have built it, and his son Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, a lawyer and congressman, later lived there. Gartrell descendants occupied it until about 1970.","period_of_significance":"1830","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival; Other: Raised Georgian Cottage","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling; moved in 1995 and rehabilitated under state-certified standards, with a small rear addition and a new raised basement.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.888333-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000629.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209953","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134466955"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/wilkes-county/gartrell-family-house-02000629/"}