{"nrhp_refnum":"05001596","name":"West Point Commercial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 4th Ave., 2nd Ave., W. 9th St., and W. 7th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Point","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":32.87716981600005,"lon":-85.18439660529147,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district in downtown West Point, Troup County, Georgia, on the Chattahoochee River at the Georgia-Alabama line. It holds 39 contributing resources, mostly one- and two-story brick commercial buildings from c.1870 to the mid-20th century.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for commerce, as the commercial center for western Troup County and nearby Georgia and Alabama mill villages. It is significant under Criterion C for its collection of Commercial-style buildings, the 1932 Neoclassical Revival post office, and the 1940 Batson-Cook building designed by Henry J. Toombs. The buildings also document the town's resilience through fires, floods and a 1920 tornado.","narrative":"Downtown West Point, on the Chattahoochee River at the Georgia-Alabama line, preserves a compact commercial district of mostly one- and two-story attached brick buildings dating from about 1870 into the mid-20th century. The town grew as a rail hub, where passengers and freight changed trains because of differing track gauges, and later as a trading center for nearby cotton mill villages. Notable buildings include the 1884 Lanier Building, which once held an opera house on its third floor until a 1920 tornado destroyed it, the 1890 Heyman-Merz Building, the 1907 Bank of West Point, and a 1932 Neoclassical Revival post office designed by Louis A. Simon. A 1940 Batson-Cook office was designed by architect Henry J. Toombs. Raised sidewalks recall repeated floods. The district was listed for its role in local commerce and for its representative collection of Commercial-style architecture, with buildings that also record the town's recovery from fires, floods and storms.","period_of_significance":"c.1870-1955","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon (architect, U.S. Post Office); Henry J. Toombs (architect, Batson-Cook Building)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Classical Revival; Commercial Style; Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district continues to function as a commercial center; the post office is still in use as a post office and many buildings house businesses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.384571-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05001596.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001596/c3cdeef9b7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001596/c3cdeef9b7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Point_Georgia_Downtown.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">SaveRivers</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Point_Georgia_Downtown.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209767","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141810353"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/west-point-commercial-historic-district-05001596/"}