{"nrhp_refnum":"07001307","name":"Bacon County School","other_names":["Bacon County Elementary School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"504 N Pierce St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alma","county":"Bacon County","state":"GA","lat":31.54499124700004,"lon":-82.46249400099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-12-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A T-shaped, red brick Colonial Revival school building at 504 North Pierce Street in downtown Alma, Bacon County, Georgia, built 1933-1934 with Alexander W. Douglas as general contractor.","why_significant":"It is significant in architecture as a good example of a small-town consolidated public school with restrained Colonial Revival details. It is significant in education because it reflects Alma and Bacon County's effort to provide a modern school for the local white community during Georgia's school consolidation movement. The building retains its original exterior finishes, massing, form, details and pattern of openings.","narrative":"Built in 1933-1934 on North Pierce Street in downtown Alma, Bacon County School is a T-shaped red brick building in the Colonial Revival style. A two-story central block with an arched entry porch is flanked by one-story classroom wings and end pavilions, with a large auditorium forming the stem of the T. Brick quoins, string courses and a dentil cornice provide the ornament. The school was built after the town and county school systems merged and the school-age population grew, and it first served grades one through eleven. Alexander W. Douglas was the general contractor. It reflects Georgia's consolidated school movement, which replaced many small schools with larger buildings containing corridors, offices and auditoriums. The building also served as a community meeting place and hosted plays. It remained a school until 2003, later housing elementary grades, Head Start and pre-K. It was listed for its architecture and its role in local education, and the county plans to convert part of it to a senior center.","period_of_significance":"1933-1957","architect_builder":"Douglas, Alexander - general contractor, 1933","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the Bacon County Commission, which plans to rehabilitate part of the building as a senior center; it served as a school until 2003 and current function is listed as work in progress.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.438404-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/07001307.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001307/fb3a25d44b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001307/fb3a25d44b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alma_Schoolhouse,_Alma,_GA,_USA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</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:Alma_Schoolhouse,_Alma,_GA,_USA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206831","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_County_Elementary_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27957460"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bacon-county/bacon-county-school-07001307/"}