{"nrhp_refnum":"04001238","name":"Peabody School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Herman Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eastman","county":"Dodge County","state":"GA","lat":32.19102746000004,"lon":-83.17991628599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-building school campus on Herman Avenue in Eastman, Dodge County, Georgia, made up of a 1938 brick school building and a 1957 brick lunchroom building. It served the county's African-American community.","why_significant":"The campus is significant for education and Black ethnic heritage as the only public school for African-American children in Dodge County in its period, reflecting segregated schooling. It is also significant in architecture as an intact campus combining a Depression-era consolidated-type school with a 1950s International-style lunchroom.","narrative":"Peabody School is a small campus in Eastman, Georgia, made up of a one-story brick school building finished in 1938 and a brick lunchroom added in 1957. The school was built as a Works Progress Administration project on the site of an earlier wooden school that burned, using plans by E.C. Hosford. It housed all grades for African-American students across Dodge County, at a time when the county ran fourteen schools for white students. The T-shaped building shows Colonial Revival touches, including a symmetrical front and a pedimented entrance. The lunchroom, designed by the Atlanta firm Stevens and Wilkinson, has a flat roof and ribbon windows typical of the International style. It replaced wooden barracks that had served as classrooms and a lunchroom. The campus is recognized for its role in Black education under segregation and as an intact example of two eras of Georgia school design. A community group bought it in 1994 and uses it for gatherings.","period_of_significance":"1938-1957","architect_builder":"E.C. Hosford, architect, school building; Lawrence Noles, W.P.A. foreman, school building; Stevens and Wilkinson, architects, lunchroom building","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival; Modern Movement/International Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed current function is vacant/not in use, though the text says the building is used for family and church events, meetings and a summer feeding program.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.938159-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04001238.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001238/ddbaa5cb83-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001238/ddbaa5cb83-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peabody_School,_Eastman,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</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:Peabody_School,_Eastman,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207830","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_School_(Eastman,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14686788"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dodge-county/peabody-school-04001238/"}