{"nrhp_refnum":"02000759","name":"Newton House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"892 Prince Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.96207665500003,"lon":-83.39263020699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-07-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Other"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne style house at 892 Prince Avenue in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, built about 1897 by Charles H. Newton, Sr., together with a moved one-story servant's house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent, high-style example of Queen Anne architecture on Prince Avenue, once a grand residential boulevard. It is also linked to Catherine Newton, a pioneering University of Georgia nutrition professor and advocate for women's education. The moved servant's house is described as a rare surviving domestic outbuilding along Prince Avenue.","narrative":"Built around 1897 on Prince Avenue in Athens, Georgia, this Queen Anne house was home to the Newton family for about a century. It rises two and a half stories under a hipped roof, with projecting gables, bay windows, patterned chimneys and a wraparound porch with Doric columns on brick piers. Inside, hardwood floors, pocket doors, mantels, wainscoting and built-in furniture survive. A one-story rear addition came about 1918 and a sleeping porch about 1926. A moved servant's house stands behind the main house. The property is recognized for its architecture and for Catherine Newton, who lived there with her three unmarried sisters. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 1921, joined its faculty in 1924 as the second woman hired, and taught nutrition until 1965. She pressed for women's housing, programs and athletics on campus. The house now serves as medical offices amid commercial development.","period_of_significance":"c. 1897-1951","architect_builder":"Charles H. Newton, Sr.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Historically a single dwelling; current function is a clinic/doctor's office. The form says the house was rehabilitated for office space after a 1996 sale.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.534971-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000759.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000759/5a2b648104-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000759/5a2b648104-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"GAgayle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">GAgayle</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:Newton_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207486","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134281980"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/newton-house-02000759/"}