{"nrhp_refnum":"03000198","name":"Oakland City Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Donnelly St., Lee St., Campbellton Rd., and Ingram Rd., Cascade Ave., Westmont Rd., and Epworth Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.728132645000045,"lon":-84.42755199482649,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large streetcar-suburb historic district in southwest Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, north of Fort McPherson. It holds about 1,437 contributing resources, mostly houses, along with commercial buildings, a school, churches and a park, developed from the 1890s to the mid-1950s.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for community planning and development as a working-class streetcar suburb of Atlanta that grew along trolley lines. It is significant under Criterion C for its intact collection of late 19th and early 20th century houses, commercial buildings and community landmarks, with the bungalow the most numerous house type.","narrative":"Oakland City is a residential neighborhood southwest of downtown Atlanta, laid out along trolley lines that reached the area in the 1890s. It grew as a working-class suburb, and its streets follow the paths of the streetcar and the railroad. The district holds more than 1,400 historic buildings, mostly one- and two-story frame houses. Bungalows are the most common type, alongside Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Colonial Revival and English Vernacular Revival houses, as well as shotgun and gabled ell cottages. The oldest surviving building, a gabled ell cottage at 1214 Avon Avenue, dates to 1867. Small brick commercial buildings cluster on Lee Street and Cascade Avenue. Community landmarks include I.N. Ragsdale Elementary School, designed by G. Lloyd Preacher, Fairfield Baptist Church, and Oakland City Park with its 1931 granite entrance markers. The district was listed for its role as an Atlanta streetcar suburb and for its largely intact collection of buildings from the 1890s to the 1950s.","period_of_significance":"1867-1955","architect_builder":"G. Lloyd Preacher (Oakland City School, now I.N. Ragsdale Elementary School)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle), Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Commercial Style, Bungalow/Craftsman, Ranch, Folk Victorian, English Vernacular Revival, and vernacular house types such as shotgun, gabled ell cottage and I-house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district remains primarily residential and still has a neighborhood school, churches, commercial buildings on Lee Street and Cascade Avenue, and Oakland City Park. Some infill construction and altered commercial buildings exist.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.027961-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/03000198.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208278","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_City,_Atlanta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14686769"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/oakland-city-historic-district-03000198/"}