{"nrhp_refnum":"07001002","name":"Third District A & M School-Georgia Southwestern College Historic District","other_names":["Third District Agricultural &amp","Mechanical School","State Agricultural &amp","Normal School"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"800 Wheatley St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Americus","county":"Sumter County","state":"GA","lat":32.05619134700004,"lon":-84.21791929203698,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 13-acre historic college campus core at 800 Wheatley Street in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, on the Georgia Southwestern State University campus. It holds eight contributing brick buildings and two structures built between 1906 and 1956, arranged around a triangular front lawn and a smaller quadrangle.","why_significant":"The district preserves the designed campus plan of the Third District Agricultural & Mechanical School, founded in 1906, and its growth into Georgia Southwestern College through 1956. The layout, a prominent neoclassical building at the apex of a triangular lawn with flanking classical buildings, is characteristic of Georgia's A & M schools and is most similar to Georgia Southern University's. The campus plans involved architect Haralson Bleckley, other architects and horticulturist P.J. Berckmans.","narrative":"Eight brick buildings, a triangular front lawn and a small quadrangle form the historic core of Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus. The campus began in 1906 as the Third District Agricultural & Mechanical School and later became a state normal college and then Georgia Southwestern College. The first phase of construction ended in 1956. The Wheatley Administration Building, built in 1918 after a fire destroyed the original 1907 academic hall, anchors the apex of the lawn with a columned portico and dome. Smaller Colonial Revival and classical buildings angle off on either side, including dormitories, a gymnasium and an alumni center. The layout resembles other Georgia A & M schools, and the campus drew on plans by architects Haralson Bleckley, T.F. Lockwood and Crawford Wheatley, with grounds planning credited to horticulturist P.J. Berckmans. Interiors have changed over time, but the exteriors remain largely intact, preserving the early twentieth century campus design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Haralson Bleckley; T.F. Lockwood; Crawford Wheatley (supervised Wheatley Administration Building); Logan and Williams (Collum I)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a college campus; buildings have been renovated for alumni, academic and administrative uses, and the Wheatley Administration Building is undergoing rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.105697-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/07001002.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001002/7077daa9d2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001002/7077daa9d2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Administration_Building,_Georgia_Southwestern_State_University.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Administration_Building,_Georgia_Southwestern_State_University.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209538","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_District_A_%26_M_School-Georgia_Southwestern_College_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141809924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/sumter-county/third-district-a-and-m-school-georgia-southwestern-college-historic-district-07001002/"}