{"nrhp_refnum":"06000740","name":"Smith, Archibald, House","other_names":["Archibald Smith Plantation Home","Oakwood Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"935 Alpharetta St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roswell","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":34.02412443600008,"lon":-84.35992188499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district in Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia, centered on a two-story vernacular Georgian farmhouse built 1844-1845 for Archibald and Anne Magill Smith, with surrounding farm outbuildings and structures on about 4.9 acres.","why_significant":"The house is a working-farm residence that contrasts with the grand mansions of Roswell's other founding families, reflecting Smith's focus on farming and agricultural experimentation. It retains original timber framing and interior details, along with a collection of antebellum outbuildings. The form also documents the property's 1940s renovations and its use as a museum since 1992.","narrative":"This property in Roswell, Georgia, is a farmstead centered on a two-story, three-bay vernacular Georgian house built in 1844-1845 for Archibald Smith and his wife Anne Magill Smith. Local carpenter Denny Gentry built the heavy timber-framed house, which has clapboard siding, a wood shingle roof, a stone and brick foundation, and a simple Greek Revival entrance. Around it stand thirteen contributing outbuildings and structures, including a kitchen, corn crib, well, springhouse, carriage house and cottages, plus four noncontributing modern or rebuilt elements. The house is much plainer than the large mansions built in town by other founding families, because Smith kept to farming and agricultural experimentation. In the 1940s, descendant and architect Arthur W. Smith added the full-height portico, wiring, plumbing and heating. The City of Roswell restored parts of the property and opened it as a house museum in 1992.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Denny Gentry (local carpenter, builder); 1940s alterations by Arthur W. Smith, architect and descendant","architectural_style":"OTHER/Georgian House (vernacular Georgian with Greek Revival details)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operated as a house museum by the City of Roswell, open to the public since 1992.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.670235-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/06000740.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000740/fd2a7129a5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000740/fd2a7129a5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Bleak23","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArchibaldSmithPlantationHome.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleak23</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArchibaldSmithPlantationHome.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208336","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Smith_Plantation_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4786517"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/smith-archibald-house-06000740/"}