{"nrhp_refnum":"05000278","name":"Brazeal, Dr. Brailsford R., House","other_names":["Brazeal House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"193 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.75110983900004,"lon":-84.41789709799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick American Foursquare house with Craftsman detailing at 193 Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built in 1927 by the Adair Construction Company and expanded with a rear ell in 1962.","why_significant":"It is the surviving building most closely tied to Dr. Brailsford R. Brazeal, a Morehouse College teacher, dean and scholar who lived and kept a home office there from 1940 until his death in 1981. The form argues national significance in education and Black ethnic heritage, citing his teaching, mentoring and his 1946 book on the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It is also considered significant as an example of 1920s house architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1927 by the Adair Construction Company, this two-story brick house on Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard in Atlanta follows the American Foursquare form, with a low pyramidal roof, a full-width front porch and modest Craftsman details. It sits just west of the Morehouse College campus. Dr. Brailsford R. Brazeal, a Morehouse economics professor, bought it in 1940 and lived there until his death in 1981. He kept a home office upstairs and often hosted students, faculty and alumni. Brazeal later served as the college's first Dean of Academics, helped bring a Phi Beta Kappa chapter to Morehouse in 1967, and wrote The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1946), a widely reviewed study of the Pullman porters' union. He updated the kitchen and bathroom in the mid-1950s and added a ranch-style family room in 1962. The house remains largely as he left it, with original plaster, woodwork and lighting fixtures, and is recognized for its link to his career and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1927-1972","architect_builder":"Adair Construction Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Bungalow/Craftsman; Other: American Foursquare","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the house is described as essentially unchanged since 1981, with a former garage demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.03049-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000278.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208098","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134314775"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/brazeal-dr-brailsford-r-house-05000278/"}