{"nrhp_refnum":"04000339","name":"O'Neal School Neighborhood Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Seaboard Coastline Railroad, Owens St. 16ht Ave. and 6th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cordele","county":"Crisp County","state":"GA","lat":31.96651790550004,"lon":-83.77524766708018,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district in Cordele, Crisp County, south Georgia, southeast of the downtown business area, with houses, two commercial buildings, churches and a school built between 1887 and 1954.","why_significant":"The district is significant in architecture for its collection of late 19th- to mid-20th-century house styles and types, and for its community landmark buildings. It is also significant in community planning and development, since it grew out of the 1887 street grid and later development companies.","narrative":"This neighborhood just southeast of downtown Cordele, in Crisp County, Georgia, contains about 250 contributing buildings put up between 1887 and 1954. It follows the street grid laid out when the city was platted in 1887 and grew through land companies, including the Americus Investment Company and the O'Neal Land and Development Company. Larger houses line Twelfth through Fifteenth Avenues, while smaller homes sit along the edges. Styles range from Italianate, Queen Anne and Folk Victorian to Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival, English Vernacular Revival and Craftsman, with house types such as Georgian cottages, gabled ell cottages, New South cottages and bungalows. Several houses were designed by architects T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. and Jr. of Columbus and W. Elliot Dunwody, Jr. of Macon. The district also holds two early 20th-century commercial buildings and landmark churches, including Christ Episcopal, First Methodist, First Baptist and First Presbyterian. It was listed for its architecture and its role in the planned growth of Cordele.","period_of_significance":"1887-1954","architect_builder":"Charles Edward Choate (architect, First Methodist Church); W. Elliot Dunwody, Jr. (architect); T. Firth Lockwood, Sr. (architect); T. Firth Lockwood, Jr. (architect)","architectural_style":"Italianate, Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, English Vernacular Revival, Craftsman, Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival, Commercial, Bungalow, Ranch","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic residential, commercial and religious uses continue; Adams Hospital has been converted to apartments, and O'Neal School (1957) is counted as nonhistoric after alterations.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.09601-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04000339.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207714","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/crisp-county/oneal-school-neighborhood-historic-district-04000339/"}