{"nrhp_refnum":"07000378","name":"Carrollton Downtown Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly around downtown sq. and is bounded by Johnson Ave., White St., Mill St. and Barnes St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carrollton","county":"Carroll County","state":"GA","lat":33.57980765800005,"lon":-85.07413495700013,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown historic district in Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia, centered on Adamson Square and containing 74 contributing and 29 noncontributing resources. It includes commercial buildings, churches, civic buildings and industrial structures dating from the 1870s to 1956, laid out on an 1829 town plan.","why_significant":"The district is significant for architecture, as a collection of Commercial style buildings and community landmarks typical of small Georgia towns. It is significant for commerce as the historic commercial center of the county, and for community planning as an intact county seat plan that combines Sparta and Augusta plan features. It also reflects politics and government through the courthouse and civic buildings.","narrative":"Carrollton's downtown core grew around Adamson Square, laid out in 1829 when the town became the Carroll County seat. The district holds one- and two-story brick storefronts built from the 1870s onward, set flush with the sidewalk and decorated with brick cornices, arched upper windows and large display windows. Around them sit community landmarks: Romanesque Revival Presbyterian and First Baptist churches, a Classical Revival Methodist church, the 1914 city hall, the 1914 post office, a former school designed by Neil Reid, and the 1928 courthouse by William J.J. Chase, placed two blocks from the square. Industrial and farm-supply buildings, a Coca-Cola bottling office, an early gas station and a doctor's Craftsman house add variety. The district was recognized for its architecture, its role as the commercial center of the county, and its intact town plan, which blends two Georgia county seat layouts. Its period of significance runs from 1829 to 1956.","period_of_significance":"1829-1956","architect_builder":"William J.J. Chase, architect, and Carr Construction Company, builder (Carroll County Courthouse); John Knox Taylor, architect, and J.M. Geary, builder (United States Post Office); W.F. New, architect (First Baptist Church); Neil Reid of Hentz, Reid & Adler, architect (Carrollton Community Activities Center)","architectural_style":"Commercial style, Romanesque Revival, Classical Revival, Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, International Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Many buildings remain in use as stores, offices, churches, a courthouse, a post office and a residence; one bank building lost its top two floors, compromising its integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.059619-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/07000378.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000378/2f73228dd4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000378/2f73228dd4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrollton_Commercial_Historic_District_3.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Carrollton_Commercial_Historic_District_3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207223","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141715503"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/carroll-county/carrollton-downtown-historic-district-07000378/"}