{"nrhp_refnum":"04001557","name":"Vienna Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly centered on the downtown commercial district and includes residential areas and the rail line","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vienna","county":"Dooly County","state":"GA","lat":32.09299486450007,"lon":-83.79240502468201,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Vienna, the county seat of Dooly County, Georgia, covering the downtown commercial core around the courthouse square, residential areas to the north and east, and the rail line and industrial buildings on the east side. The town plan dates to 1841; the surviving buildings run from the mid-19th century to 1960.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as an intact small Georgia county-seat town. It keeps a Washington-type courthouse-square plan, rows of commercial buildings, a wide range of house types and styles, and cotton-related industrial buildings. Its growth followed the arrival of the railroad in 1888 and the agricultural economy of one of Georgia's larger cotton-producing counties.","narrative":"Vienna Historic District covers the core of the Dooly County seat in west central Georgia. The town was laid out in 1841 on a courthouse-square plan, and the present Romanesque Revival courthouse, designed by W.H. Parkins, went up on the west side of the square in 1891. Around the square stand rows of attached one- and two-story brick stores in Commercial, Classical Revival and International styles, ending with a 1960 post office. Residential streets extend north and east and hold houses from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, including Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Craftsman, bungalow and ranch examples, along with a c. 1890 church later converted to a home. Cotton warehouses and a gin and fertilizer company sit near the railroad, which arrived in 1888 and brought the telegraph and waterworks. The district is notable for showing how a farm-based county seat developed over about a century, with its town plan, commercial blocks, houses and industry still largely in place.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W.H. Parkins (Dooly County Courthouse, 1891)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Commercial, Craftsman, International Style, Folk Victorian, English Vernacular Revival, Bungalow, Ranch, and other vernacular house types","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district is still in use as a working town. Its buildings serve as homes, shops, offices, churches, a school, a museum, a city park and the county courthouse. Coley Gin and Fertilizer Company continues to operate along the rail line, and one historic gas station has been converted to a restaurant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.265508-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/04001557.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001557/a519e22b9b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001557/a519e22b9b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vienna_Historic_District_b.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Vienna_Historic_District_b.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205974","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141757322"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dooly-county/vienna-historic-district-04001557/"}