{"nrhp_refnum":"07001337","name":"Powell, William E. and Sarah Dillard, House","other_names":["Boxwood Terrace"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"219 Boxwood Terrace","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dillard","county":"Rabun County","state":"GA","lat":34.97261139300008,"lon":-83.38230781199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture","Other"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame I-house with four additions, built c.1882 on about one acre near the town of Dillard in Rabun County, Georgia, with a surviving well house outbuilding. It served as a family farmhouse and then a seasonal boarding house.","why_significant":"It is significant locally as an early boarding house of the late 19th and early 20th century resort era, made possible by the arrival of the railroad. Its additions show the shift from farmhouse to large guest accommodation. It is tied to the Dillard and Powell families and to Sarah Dillard Powell, who ran the boarding house from c.1890 to 1962.","narrative":"Built around 1882 on the edge of Dillard, Georgia, this two-story weatherboard house began as a simple I-house with a central hall and grew into a 19-room boarding house. Additions around 1890 and 1900 brought guest bedrooms with private porch doors, a large dining room and a kitchen, and two bathrooms were added around 1940. The house has no academic style, but its varied windows, foundations and porches record each phase of change. Sarah Dillard Powell and her husband William E. Powell, a farmer, lived here, and she ran the boarding house from about 1890 until 1962. Her daughter Frances continued it until 1973. The house is tied to the arrival of the railroad and the rise of Rabun County as a summer destination for travelers. Boxwood hedges, a stone wall, mature trees and a small well house remain on the roughly one-acre lot, which is the remnant of the former farm.","period_of_significance":"c.1882-1957","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: I-house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed under current function 'work in progress'; the owners began interior rehabilitation preparation but did not complete it, and the yard was recently untended.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.519989-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/07001337.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209323","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/rabun-county/powell-william-e-and-sarah-dillard-house-07001337/"}