{"nrhp_refnum":"04000669","name":"High Uptown Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 2nd and 3rd Aves. between Railroad and 13th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.47411121500005,"lon":-84.9894450681437,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, just north of the central business district along Second and Third Avenues, containing 39 contributing buildings and 18 noncontributing resources dating from about 1838 to 1954.","why_significant":"The district is significant locally under Criterion C for architecture and landscape architecture. It preserves a concentration of high-style and vernacular houses in many styles, together with a school, a church and wide tree-lined avenues from the original city plan. It holds the remaining historic resources of the High Uptown neighborhood, much of which has been lost to demolition and new construction.","narrative":"High Uptown is a neighborhood of historic houses and community buildings on Second and Third Avenues, just north of downtown Columbus, Georgia. It lies within the original city plan, and its avenues have wide rights-of-way, grassy borders, granite curbs and street trees. The district holds 39 contributing buildings, 24 of which were already listed individually or in a group listing. They range from the c. 1838 Peabody-Warner House, the earliest in the district, to a 1954 church administration building. Large high-style homes in Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Jacobethan styles sit on deep lots, some with carriage houses. Modest shotgun and cottage houses stand near the railroad tracks at the northern end. A brick Romanesque school from 1893 and a domed Methodist Tabernacle from 1912-13 serve as community landmarks. Because new construction and road projects have claimed many nearby houses, the district preserves what remains of the neighborhood's historic architecture and landscape. It was recognized locally for architecture and landscape architecture.","period_of_significance":"C. 1838-1954","architect_builder":"Henrietta Dozier (redesign of the Blackmar-Ellis House, c. 1900)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque, Colonial/Georgian Revival, Classical and Neoclassical Revival, Jacobethan Revival, Craftsman, and vernacular types such as Georgian cottage, shotgun and gabled ell","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Most buildings remain in use as houses, apartments, offices, a school or a church. The neighborhood is surrounded by new construction, and some houses have been lost or moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.713743-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04000669.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206484","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Uptown_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55613719"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/high-uptown-historic-district-04000669/"}