{"nrhp_refnum":"09000824","name":"Hapeville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1-75 E., Mt. Zion Rd. N., I-85 W., and Airport Loop Rd. S., Sylvan and Springdale Rds. W. of I-85","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hapeville","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.667231582000056,"lon":-84.4082299187713,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-10-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic district covering the commercial and residential core of the city of Hapeville, about seven miles south of Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, with buildings dating from 1890 to the early 1960s.","why_significant":"The district preserves a small railroad-founded suburb shaped by transportation, from the 1890 depot to the highway, airport and interstate era. It contains a wide range of house types and styles, especially American Small Houses and Ranch Houses, along with landmark buildings by noted architects. Its growth tracked the 1940s defense work, the Ford plant and airport expansion.","narrative":"Hapeville is a city of about 1,800 historic resources lying south of Atlanta and surrounded by interstates and the busy airport. The district takes in the old commercial strip along the railroad and Central Avenue, where one- and two-story brick buildings went up mostly between 1903 and 1930, and the neighborhoods that grew behind it from 1917 into the early 1960s. Its anchor is the 1890 railroad depot, around which the town was incorporated in 1891. Most houses date from after World War II, when defense work, the Ford assembly plant and airport expansion drove demand. American Small Houses and Ranch Houses dominate, mixed with earlier bungalows and Victorian-era homes. Landmarks include a 1929 Methodist church by Hentz, Adler & Shutze, the 1929 North Avenue School by Philip Shutze, a 1940 post office, a 1950 city hall complex and a 1974 library. Together they show how transportation shaped the community's booms and busts.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Hentz, Adler & Shutze; Philip Shutze; Louis A. Simon; A. Thomas Bradbury; Stevens and Wilkinson; local builders including H and V, Happy Homes, Russell Builders, Rankin-Whitten, Hapeville Homes, J. G. Howell and Baker Realty","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Craftsman/Bungalow, Colonial Revival, English Vernacular Revival, Neoclassical Revival, International Style, Masonry Vernacular, plus American Small House, Ranch House and Split Level types","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic functions continue today, including commerce, housing, education, government and religion; the Ford assembly plant is no longer extant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.677457-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/09000824.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208216","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141760414"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/hapeville-historic-district-09000824/"}