{"nrhp_refnum":"03001017","name":"Montezuma Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly centered along N. and S. Dooly St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montezuma","county":"Macon County","state":"GA","lat":32.303492627000054,"lon":-84.02830692818804,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-10-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Black","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Montezuma, Macon County, Georgia, extending about 1.5 miles along North and South Dooly Street. It holds commercial, industrial, institutional and residential resources dating from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.","why_significant":"The district preserves the built development of Montezuma as a railroad town, including its downtown, two early industrial mills, community landmarks, and varied house types. It includes a historic African-American neighborhood (Duncan's Bottom) with rare intact single-pen houses and an African-American commercial block on Beaver Street. The excerpt provided does not include the full significance statement or the criteria.","narrative":"Montezuma Historic District covers the core of a railroad town in central southwest Georgia, stretching roughly 1.5 miles along Dooly Street. Two rail lines cross the district, and downtown grew up beside them. The commercial area has one- and two-story brick buildings with corbeled cornices, along with a 1921 Neoclassical bank, a 1920 Art Deco building and a cotton warehouse. Two industrial buildings from the Montezuma Manufacturing Company remain: a cottonseed oil mill (1901) and a knitting mill (1903). Community landmarks include the 1890 depot, a 1906 Carnegie library, a 1939 post office, and a 1911 Confederate monument. Houses range from the late 19th century to the early 1950s in Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial Revival and other styles. Duncan's Bottom, the historic African-American neighborhood west of North Dooly Street, retains rare intact single-pen houses, and Beaver Street was its business and social center. Flooding has long affected the town, and a levee was built along Beaver Creek in 1954.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical/Neoclassical Revival, Tudor/English Vernacular Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian, Commercial Vernacular Victorian, 20th Century Commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings in the central business district are described as in good to excellent condition with a high degree of integrity. Many resources remain in their historic uses, including houses, shops, a post office, library and cemeteries.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.290805-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/03001017.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001017/df9d081b20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001017/df9d081b20-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_Dooly_St_2_story_building,_Montezuma.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</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:S_Dooly_St_2_story_building,_Montezuma.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208877","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141779649"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/macon-county/montezuma-historic-district-03001017/"}