{"nrhp_refnum":"04000241","name":"New Perry Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"800 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Perry","county":"Houston County","state":"GA","lat":32.45675509700004,"lon":-83.73326572599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Landscape Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hotel complex at 800 Main Street on the south side of the courthouse square in Perry, Houston County, Georgia. It includes a three-story Neoclassical Revival hotel built in 1925, a 1955 motel court, a 1959 pool and cabana, and a historic landscape.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel was a downtown hotel serving local civic life and northern tourists heading to Florida on the Dixie Highway (US 41). It is also significant for women's history, since a woman built and ran a hotel of this size, and for its hotel, motel and mid-20th-century landscape design.","narrative":"Standing on the south side of the courthouse square in Perry, this hotel complex grew from a three-story Neoclassical Revival hotel built in 1925 by Rochelle Cheves Skellie. It was designed by the firm Dennis and Dennis, with Davenport Guerry hired to landscape the grounds. It replaced two earlier hotels on the same site, the first dating to 1833. Yates and Nannette Green bought it in 1944 and ran it until 1997. They added a kitchen, dining room expansion and banquet hall in 1947, a Colonial Revival motel court in 1955, and a pool and cabana in 1959. A fire gutted the third floor in 1947, and the hotel was remodeled. It was a stop for Florida-bound travelers on US 41 and a meeting place for local civic clubs. It is notable for its commerce and social history, for the rare case of a woman building a large hotel, and for its architecture and mid-century landscape of brick walks, walls and gate posts.","period_of_significance":"1925-1959","architect_builder":"Dennis and Dennis (architectural firm); Guerry, Davenport (landscape architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is hotel; the 2000s saw part of the east side converted to a bar and grill and offices, and local investors planned to restore it to its mid-20th-century appearance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.789503-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04000241.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000241/50a4f14d0b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000241/50a4f14d0b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Perry_Hotel,_Perry,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</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:New_Perry_Hotel,_Perry,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208680","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Perry_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28124287"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/houston-county/new-perry-hotel-04000241/"}