{"nrhp_refnum":"03000678","name":"Bank of Jakin","other_names":["Jakin Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"135 S. Pearl St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jakin","county":"Early County","state":"GA","lat":31.089596868000058,"lon":-84.98305186399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story brick commercial building at 135 South Pearl Street in Jakin, Early County, Georgia, constructed in 1912 as a bank and later used as the town post office.","why_significant":"It is argued to be a good example of an early 20th-century small-town brick commercial building that keeps its original exterior and interior materials (Criterion C). It also served as Jakin's only bank from 1912 to 1923 and as the post office from 1923 to 1988, making it a center of commerce and communications (Criterion A).","narrative":"Built in 1912 on Pearl Street, the main commercial street of Jakin in southwest Georgia, this one-story brick building was constructed as the Bank of Jakin. It has a flat roof, a stepped parapet with corbeled brick and recessed panels, and tan brick on the front and north sides with red brick at the rear and west. Inside, the plaster walls, beadboard ceiling, wood floors, fireplaces and a Mosler Safe Co. vault door survive. The bank served a lumber-mill town of about 2,000 people and was the only bank in Jakin until it closed in 1923. The post office then moved into the vacant building and stayed until a new facility opened in 1988. After a period of storage use, the city bought it in 2000 for rehabilitation as a city hall. It is recognized for its architecture as a typical small-town bank and for its role in local commerce and communications.","period_of_significance":"1912-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 20th Century Commercial Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The city bought the building in 2000 to rehabilitate it as a city hall; the current function is listed as work in progress.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.531825-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/03000678.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207897","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Jakin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38251709"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/early-county/bank-of-jakin-03000678/"}