{"nrhp_refnum":"02001748","name":"Hillcrest-Wildwood Circle Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Wildwood Ave., 13th and 17th Sts., and Dixon Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.47519780500005,"lon":-84.95534317881052,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Literature"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district east of downtown Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, made up of the Hillcrest and Wildwood Circle subdivisions. It grew from the John F. Flournoy family estate, starting with the 1890 Hillcrest house, and includes 95 contributing and 13 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district grew from the estate of John F. Flournoy, a prominent Columbus suburban developer, and his real estate company's Wildwood Circle subdivision of 1911. It contains the Hillcrest house, described as the only remaining monumental high-style Queen Anne-Eastlake house in Columbus. It also holds early 20th-century house types and the site of the antebellum Hilton house, which has archaeological potential.","narrative":"Hillcrest-Wildwood Circle is a residential neighborhood east of downtown Columbus, Georgia, in the area once known as Wynnton. It developed in the early twentieth century from the estate of John F. Flournoy, a Columbus real estate developer. His 1890 house, Hillcrest, sits on the highest hill in Wynnton. Architect L. E. Thornton designed it in the Queen Anne-Eastlake style, and it is described as the only monumental high-style Queen Anne house left in Columbus. Flournoy's children built homes around it from about 1906, and later subdivided the grounds into lots filled with houses by the early 1950s. His company laid out the Wildwood Circle subdivision in 1911. The district contains Georgian and English cottages, bungalows, Colonial Revival, Spanish Revival and ranch houses, plus several apartment buildings. At its southeast corner lies the site of the antebellum Hilton house, which burned in 1983 but has remaining foundations and old trees, and which may hold archaeological evidence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"L. E. Thornton (architect of the Hillcrest house, 1890); Gardiner Garrard of the office of James J. W. Biggers (designed a 1942 house)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Moderne, Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as single and multiple dwellings. The Hilton house burned in 1983, leaving its foundation, a brick outbuilding, a stone retaining wall and plantings. The Hillcrest house was described as in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.203039-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02001748.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001748/9b48664991-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001748/9b48664991-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Farragutful","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wildwood_Court_Apartments.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Farragutful</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wildwood_Court_Apartments.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209098","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141782414"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/hillcrest-wildwood-circle-historic-district-02001748/"}