{"nrhp_refnum":"08000713","name":"Morgan-Ille Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"703 2nd Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tybee Island","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.00501082400007,"lon":-80.84578699699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story frame seaside cottage at 703 2nd Avenue on Tybee Island, Georgia, built about 1930 at Fort Screven as housing for noncommissioned officers and moved to its present lot between 1946 and 1948.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cottage is a good example of the small frame beach cottages built by middle-class families on Tybee Island in the 1930s and 1940s. It also represents the island's shift from seasonal resort to year-round community after World War II, and one of the few intact cottages surviving from Tybee's early resort era. Its Fort Screven origin ties it to the island's military history.","narrative":"This small frame cottage at 703 2nd Avenue on Tybee Island, Georgia, began life around 1930 at Fort Screven, where it housed noncommissioned officers. After the army sold its residential buildings in 1946, the cottage was moved to its present lot and remodeled as a single-family home, gaining a full-width front porch and two bedrooms and a small kitchen at the rear. It is one story, raised on concrete piers, clad in weatherboard, and topped with a side-gable metal roof. A 1970s remodeling covered much of the original material with brick veneer and paneling, but a 2006 rehabilitation removed those additions and kept the historic floor plan. The cottage is recognized as a good example of the modest beach houses built by middle-class families in the 1930s and 1940s, and as one of the few intact survivors of Tybee's early resort development. It also reflects the island's postwar growth into a year-round community.","period_of_significance":"c.1930-1958","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Seaside cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; rehabilitated in 2006 to uncover historic materials hidden by 1970s remodeling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.12479-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/08000713.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000713/33b7d8e855-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000713/33b7d8e855-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Tybee_Island_Morgan-Ille_Cottage01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</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:GA_Tybee_Island_Morgan-Ille_Cottage01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207328","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134272831"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/morgan-ille-cottage-08000713/"}