{"nrhp_refnum":"02001405","name":"Reynoldstown Historic District","other_names":["Tin Cup Alley","Slide"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the CSX rail line, Memorial Dr., Pearl St., and Moreland","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.75583097050006,"lon":-84.35235945590767,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district of about 190 acres in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, between the Cabbagetown and Edgewood neighborhoods south of the CSX rail line. It contains 546 contributing resources, mostly houses built from the 1880s to 1960, plus commercial, industrial, religious and school buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant in social history and Black ethnic heritage because it reflects post-Civil War African-American settlement along the rail lines and the mid-20th-century 'white flight.' It went from a mostly white neighborhood after World War II to almost entirely African American by 1960. It is also significant in architecture and community planning for its intact bungalows, shotgun houses and other vernacular types.","narrative":"Reynoldstown is a residential neighborhood of roughly 190 acres in Atlanta, shaped by the railroad lines that run through it. Freedmen who took railroad jobs after the Civil War settled the northwest corner around Chester Avenue and Selman, Kenyon and Wylie streets from about 1870. East of the Atlanta and West Point rail corridor, small subdivisions built between 1905 and 1930 filled with Craftsman bungalows for white middle- and working-class families. Other building types include shotgun houses, saddlebag houses, Tudor and Colonial Revival homes, brick commercial blocks, churches and two schools. After World War II, white residents moved to outlying suburbs, and by 1960 the area was almost entirely African American. The district was recognized for this record of settlement and racial change, and for its largely intact street plan and historic buildings, which date from 1870 to 1960.","period_of_significance":"1870-1960","architect_builder":"William J.J. Chase (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Romanesque; Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; International Style; vernacular house types (gabled-ell, pyramidal cottage, side-gable cottage, saddlebag, double-pen, shotgun)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as retaining a high level of historic integrity, with many vacant lots and many corner stores vacant. Still used for residential, commercial, religious and industrial purposes.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.088684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02001405.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001405/327ddfe589-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001405/327ddfe589-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Keizers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynoldstown3.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Keizers</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:Reynoldstown3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208312","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynoldstown,_Atlanta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7319695"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/reynoldstown-historic-district-02001405/"}