{"nrhp_refnum":"05000794","name":"Silver's Five and Dime Store-H.L. Green Co.","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1101-1103 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.47069957700006,"lon":-84.99349416999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-08-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick commercial building with a basement at 1101-1103 Broadway on a downtown corner in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, built in 1921 as a five-and-dime department store and designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown of Atlanta.","why_significant":"It is argued to be significant in commerce as Columbus's first full-service, one-stop store of its kind, operating first as Silver's and then as H. L. Green Co. into the 1980s. It is also significant in architecture as a well-preserved Commercial Style chain-store building by a major Atlanta architect, working with Columbus architects T. W. and E. O. Smith.","narrative":"Built in 1921 at a key downtown corner on Broadway in Columbus, Georgia, this three-story brick building with a basement opened as Silver's 5 & 10 cent and $1 Store. Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown designed it with local architects T. W. and E. O. Smith. Light-colored brick, groups of three windows, decorative brick lintels, a dentil-molded terra-cotta cornice and a parapet give it a clean Commercial Style look. It was considered the city's first full-service, one-stop shopping store, selling goods from groceries and drugs to clothing and school supplies. The chain was bought out in the early 1930s and became H. L. Green Co., which operated here until the 1980s. The restored neon and metal H. L. Green signage remains on the front. The building was later converted into loft apartments with ground-floor retail, and its original storefront windows and exterior appearance were largely retained. It was listed for its commercial role and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1921-1955","architect_builder":"Brown, A. Ten Eyck, of Atlanta, GA","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements/Commercial Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated as part of the 11th Street Lofts: twelve apartments on the upper two floors, a sandwich shop and workout studio on the first floor, and storage in the basement.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.296651-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000794.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206522","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134392379"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/silvers-five-and-dime-store-h-l-green-co-05000794/"}