{"nrhp_refnum":"07000936","name":"Marian Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 W. Poplar St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Griffin","county":"Spalding County","state":"GA","lat":33.24563740800005,"lon":-84.26907438099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Renaissance Revival apartment building at 400 West Poplar Street in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia, completed in 1919 and designed by Atlanta architect Alexander F. N. Everett.","why_significant":"It was the first luxury apartment building in Griffin and the city's only apartment building until 1934, offering modern flats to middle- and upper-middle-class residents during the post-World War I housing shortage. It is also an excellent example of an early 20th-century Renaissance Revival apartment building with modern amenities.","narrative":"Marian Apartments is a three-story apartment building in Griffin, Georgia, completed in 1919 on a triangular lot at West Poplar, Meriwether and South 10th streets. Julius W. Gresham of Gresham & Evans Construction Company built it and named it for his daughter. Atlanta architect Alexander F. N. Everett designed it in the Renaissance Revival style, with buff brick, Indiana limestone details, a terra-cotta tile roof and an Italian palazzo form. Its 24 flats offered electric lights, steam heat, sunrooms or balconies, built-in furniture and modern bathrooms and kitchens. It was Griffin's first apartment building and the only one in the city until 1934, serving middle- and upper-middle-class residents during the housing shortage after World War I. Occupancy declined, and the building was largely empty by the late 1980s. A 2005 rehabilitation converted it to low-income housing while keeping most original features, including staircases, moldings and plaster walls.","period_of_significance":"1919-1957","architect_builder":"Everett, Alexander F. N. (architect); built by Gresham & Evans Construction Company","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance (Renaissance Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 2005 as low-income housing; still used as multiple dwelling apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.522547-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/07000936.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000936/c86e2d71b4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000936/c86e2d71b4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marian_Apartments_(SouthEast_face).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:Marian_Apartments_(SouthEast_face).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209459","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Apartments_(Griffin,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85783824"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/spalding-county/marian-apartments-07000936/"}