{"nrhp_refnum":"07001000","name":"West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W. Cloverhurst Ave. vet. Springdale St. and S. Milledge Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.94378297350005,"lon":-83.39267528503521,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 80 acres centered on West Cloverhurst Avenue in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, one mile southwest of downtown. It contains 101 contributing and 18 noncontributing resources, mostly single-family houses built between 1890 and 1957.","why_significant":"The district is significant in architecture because its houses represent styles and types popular in Georgia from about 1890 to 1957, including Craftsman, English Vernacular Revival, Colonial Revival, American Small House and ranch types. It is also significant in community planning and development because it shows suburban growth south of downtown Athens as the University of Georgia prospered, when large estates were subdivided into neighborhoods.","narrative":"West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic District is a neighborhood of about 80 acres in Athens, Georgia, one mile southwest of downtown. It grew from a large farm estate. Henry Hull Carlton bought the land in 1885, built a Second Empire mansion and laid out a wide drive that became West Cloverhurst Avenue. Judge Hamilton McWhorter later platted the estate into small lots, and the mansion was demolished in 1934. Most of the district's houses date from 1935 to 1957. They include Craftsman bungalows, English Vernacular Revival and Colonial Revival houses, American Small Houses and ranch houses. The district was listed for its architecture and for what it shows about suburban growth south of downtown as the University of Georgia expanded. Residents included professors, administrators, physicians, bankers and newspaper editors. The neighborhood remains in residential use, with 101 contributing resources, nearly all of them houses.","period_of_significance":"1885-1957","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Georgian-plan house, gabled-wing cottage, American Small House, ranch house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is still domestic, single dwelling; the Carlton mansion was demolished in 1934.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.942445-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/07001000.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001000/b10a3e6a1e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001000/b10a3e6a1e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:565_W._Cloverhurst_Ave,_c._1952,_photographer_facing_south.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:565_W._Cloverhurst_Ave,_c._1952,_photographer_facing_south.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207512","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141737583"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/west-cloverhurst-avenue-historic-district-07001000/"}