{"nrhp_refnum":"04001185","name":"Thomasville Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Downtown Thomasville bet. Jefferson St. and Smith Ave. and bet. Crawford And Siexas St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Thomasville","county":"Thomas County","state":"GA","lat":30.844226979500064,"lon":-83.98165445856307,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown commercial historic district in Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, originally listed in 1984 and here expanded to the east, west and south, with a small section removed on West Jackson Street. It contains commercial, civic, industrial and community buildings dating from the 1870s to the 1950s.","why_significant":"The amendment extends the period of significance to 1954 so that buildings from the Depression, World War II and post-war years count as historic. It adds neighboring commercial and industrial buildings and re-evaluates every property in the original district. It also adds Ethnic Heritage: Black as an area of significance, recognizing the West Jackson Street area known as Sandy Bottom.","narrative":"Downtown Thomasville's commercial core grew southeast from the county courthouse along Broad and Jackson streets, and this amended district covers it in expanded form. Most buildings are one- and two-story brick structures with shared party walls, built between the 1880s and the 1940s, with a few rising to five stories. Styles include Italianate, Neoclassical Revival, Colonial Revival and International. The amendment adds about 40 acres to the east, south and west, bringing in the Bracey Lumber Company of about 1879, the 1914 Thomasville Depot, the city power plant of 1922, the 1913 B'nai Israel Synagogue and the 1940 Municipal Building. It also moves the period of significance to 1954, so Depression-era and post-war buildings now count, and it recognizes Sandy Bottom, the African-American commercial area on West Jackson Street. A block of West Jackson Street was dropped after demolitions. The district now holds 127 contributing and 65 noncontributing resources.","period_of_significance":"Extended to 1954 (full date range not given in the available text)","architect_builder":"John Wind (courthouse); A. Ten Eyck Brown (Bank of Thomasville); W. Elliot Dunwoody Jr. and contractor B. L. Brewton and Son (Municipal Building); Eaves and Chase and J. A. Wood (Mitchell House)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate, Romanesque; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Italian Renaissance; Commercial Style; International Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions include business, specialty store, restaurant, warehouse, courthouse, city hall, government office, public works, religious facility and manufacturing. Several buildings have been rehabilitated, and a block of West Jackson Street was removed from the district after earlier listed buildings there were demolished.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.339954-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04001185.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001185/f1afe076e2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001185/f1afe076e2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomasville_GA_Comm_Hist_Dist_320_Broad01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomasville_GA_Comm_Hist_Dist_320_Broad01.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84001251","name":"Dawson Street Residential Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/dawson-street-residential-historic-district-84001251/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209679","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomasville_Commercial_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7795616"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/thomas-county/thomasville-commercial-historic-district-boundary-increase-and-decrease-04001185/"}