{"nrhp_refnum":"08000354","name":"Northwest Cedartown Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Jule Peek Ave.,Spruce St.,Wissahickon Ave.,& Marshall St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cedartown","county":"Polk County","state":"GA","lat":34.01823095700004,"lon":-85.25950565853006,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-04-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district north and west of downtown Cedartown, the Polk County seat in northwest Georgia, with 375 contributing and 73 noncontributing resources. Houses date from the 1860s through 1963 and are laid out on a gridiron street plan.","why_significant":"The district is an intact residential area showing almost 100 years of continuous development in Cedartown. It contains common Georgia house types and styles, from 19th-century cottages to mid-20th-century ranch houses. It also reflects the town's growth tied to textile mills and later post-war expansion. The full Section 8 text and the criteria boxes are truncated, so the stated areas of significance are not visible.","narrative":"North and west of downtown Cedartown in Polk County, Georgia, this residential neighborhood grew from the 1860s to 1963 on a gridiron street plan. Development began near downtown and moved northward. The oldest house, an 1865 Italianate-style Georgian cottage, stands on Cave Spring Road. Houses include Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Craftsman bungalow, Colonial Revival and English Vernacular Revival examples, along with American Small Houses and ranch houses. Some late 1940s and 1950s houses were built by Billy Barr's company, Cedartown Builders. The 1955 First Baptist Church is the district's landmark building, and Peek Forest Park, given to the city in 1924, has rock entrances built with Works Progress Administration funding in the 1930s. Mill superintendents and other managers from Cedartown's textile industry lived here, and the area was home to professionals, teachers and business owners in the 1930s. Post-war prosperity led to the subdivision of remaining land. The district contains 375 contributing and 73 noncontributing resources.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Billy Barr of Cedartown Builders (builder of late 1940s-1950s houses on Spruce Street)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian, American Small House, Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in residential, religious and park use; two low-lying areas were historically vacant and remain vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.031685-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/08000354.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000354/a62b292882-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000354/a62b292882-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rascal89","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Home_on_College_Street_(NW_Cedartown_Historic_District).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rascal89</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:Home_on_College_Street_(NW_Cedartown_Historic_District).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209275","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141805399"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/polk-county/northwest-cedartown-historic-district-08000354/"}