{"nrhp_refnum":"02000841","name":"Ables, Alfred and Jane, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"230 E. Fifth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buena Vista","county":"Marion County","state":"GA","lat":32.318449835000024,"lon":-84.51132652299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story New South cottage with Folk Victorian details at 230 East Fifth Avenue in Buena Vista, Marion County, Georgia, built in 1892 by Alfred Ables, with a wooden smokehouse on the 1.5-acre property.","why_significant":"The house is a good, intact example of a New South cottage, a type rarely found in small-town African-American communities in Georgia. It was also the home of Alfred Ables, a prominent African-American businessman who provided jobs, housing, and leadership in Buena Vista. His enterprises included an express delivery company, 26 farms, real estate, and timber.","narrative":"Built in 1892 at 230 East Fifth Avenue in Buena Vista, Georgia, this one-story New South cottage with Folk Victorian details was the home of Alfred and Jane Ables. It has a hipped roof with a gabled projection, weatherboard siding, a central hall flanked by two rooms on each side, and original mantels, doors, shutters, and woodwork. A rear ell and a wooden smokehouse stand on the lot. Large houses of this type were uncommon in small-town African-American communities in Georgia. Alfred Ables, a former railroad foreman, became one of the town's most prominent businessmen, operating an overnight express delivery service, 26 farms, a timber business, and extensive real estate holdings. He built housing for people in need and, at his death in 1916, donated 16 acres for a school for African-American children. The house is recognized for its architecture, for his commercial achievements, and for its place in the town's Black heritage. Descendants lived there until 1978, and restoration began in 1994.","period_of_significance":"1892-1916","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other/Folk Victorian; Other/New South Cottage","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current use is a single dwelling. The house stood vacant from 1978 until restoration efforts began in 1994.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.566379-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02000841.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000841/ca9729e506-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000841/ca9729e506-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_and_Jane_Ables_House_(NRHP)_Buena_Vista,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Alfred_and_Jane_Ables_House_(NRHP)_Buena_Vista,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208889","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134390504"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/marion-county/ables-alfred-and-jane-house-02000841/"}