{"nrhp_refnum":"05000427","name":"East End Historic District","other_names":["Smith Park"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NE of downtown Valdosta roughly bounded by North Ashley and E. Ann Sts., East Hill Ave., and Georgia and Florida RR","address_restricted":false,"city":"Valdosta","county":"Lowndes County","state":"GA","lat":30.83980307300004,"lon":-83.27338508156186,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district northeast of downtown Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, two blocks from the courthouse square. It holds 472 contributing resources, mostly houses, built from 1869 to 1955 around East End Park (Smith Park).","why_significant":"The district is significant in architecture and in community planning and development. Its houses, churches and school show the architectural styles and house types popular in Georgia from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. It also shows how Valdosta's wealthy, middle-class and African American residents settled in distinct areas of the neighborhood.","narrative":"East End is a residential neighborhood two blocks northeast of the Lowndes County courthouse square in Valdosta, Georgia. Its development spans 1869 to 1955 and falls into three areas. Around East End Park, established in 1896, wealthy residents built large Queen Anne and Classical Revival mansions. Farther north, a broad middle-class area filled with one-story frame houses, including gabled-ell houses, Craftsman bungalows, Dutch Colonial Revival houses and, after World War II, American Small Houses. North of Gordon Street, Black workers settled in the early 1900s in small hall-parlor and shotgun houses, including two back-to-back rows of shotguns. Landmarks include the 1869 Primitive Baptist Church, the 1885 Episcopal Church and the 1937 Leila Ellis School, designed by local architect Lloyd Greer. The district was recognized for its architecture and for what it shows about the city's growth and its social and racial makeup. It contains 472 contributing resources.","period_of_significance":"1869-1955","architect_builder":"Greer, Lloyd (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance; Bungalow/Craftsman; shotgun, hall-parlor, saddlebag, gabled-ell, center-hall-plan, Georgian-plan and American Small House types","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions listed are single-dwelling residential, religious facility and school. Several historic buildings, including a synagogue and some mansions, are no longer extant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.658748-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000427.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000427/86ea8b2283-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000427/86ea8b2283-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentecostal_House_of_Prayer,_Valdosta.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</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:Pentecostal_House_of_Prayer,_Valdosta.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208833","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_End_Historic_District_(Valdosta,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30612692"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/lowndes-county/east-end-historic-district-05000427/"}