{"nrhp_refnum":"10000274","name":"Eleventh District A & M School-South Georgia College Historic District","other_names":["11th District Agricultural and Mechanical School","South Georgia State Junior College"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by College Park Dr., Brooks & Tiger Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Douglas","county":"Coffee County","state":"GA","lat":31.49598944750005,"lon":-82.85502157203047,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic campus district in Douglas, Coffee County, Georgia, forming the central core of a larger 190-acre campus. It has 13 contributing buildings dating from 1907 to 1959, plus a contributing system of roads and walkways, and began as the Eleventh District Agricultural and Mechanical School.","why_significant":"The district reflects the history of Georgia's congressional district agricultural and mechanical schools and their planned campus landscapes. It also marks the school's 1927 conversion to Georgia's first state-supported junior college, which kept the institution going when the district school system was being phased out.","narrative":"Southwest of downtown Douglas, Georgia, this campus core began in 1907 as the Eleventh District Agricultural and Mechanical School. Atlanta architect Haralson Bleckley designed its three original buildings, Peterson Hall and the flanking Davis and Powell halls, arranged around a semicircular drive and large lawn typical of Georgia's district A & M schools. Later additions include a 1927 dining hall, a relocated log tobacco barn that recalls the school's farm instruction, a 1936 gymnasium and 1939 library built with Public Works Administration help, and postwar housing and academic buildings. The district counts 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure, the network of roads and walkways. Its importance rests on the school's history. When the district school system faced closure in the 1920s, principal Joseph M. Thrash won legislation in 1927 that turned the school into Georgia's first state-supported junior college. The campus is still used for higher education, and its exteriors remain largely intact despite interior renovations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Haralson Bleckley (architect of Peterson, Davis and Powell halls); Louis Wafford (builder of Peterson Hall); Abreu & Robeson Associates of Atlanta (Tanner and Stubbs halls)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, International Style, Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a college campus; the buildings' exteriors remain largely intact while interiors have been renovated repeatedly.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.856902-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/10000274.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000274/7e5dc61e82-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000274/7e5dc61e82-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peterson_Hall,_South_Georgia_State_College,_Douglas,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207622","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_District_A_%26_M_School%E2%80%93South_Georgia_College_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22022443"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/coffee-county/eleventh-district-a-and-m-school-south-georgia-college-historic-district-10000274/"}