{"nrhp_refnum":"71000272","name":"Riverside","other_names":["Quarters No. 1"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 Vibbert Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Benning","county":"Chattahoochee County","state":"GA","lat":32.36716446300005,"lon":-84.95928164799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Riverside, also called Quarters No. 1 or Building No. 1, is the commandant's residence at 100 Vibbert Avenue, Fort Benning, Chattahoochee County, Georgia. It grew from an old meeting house moved onto the Riverside Plantation and enlarged by Arthur Bussey from about 1910.","why_significant":"The house is a landmark of the former Riverside Plantation, described as one of the last great self-supporting agricultural projects of the plantation system in the area. After the government acquired it in 1918 it housed Fort Benning's commandants, including Omar N. Bradley. The form notes that it is the first sight of the post for tens of thousands of arriving soldiers.","narrative":"Riverside, known on post as Quarters No. 1, is the commandant's residence at Fort Benning, Georgia. Its core is an old meeting house that Columbus businessman Arthur Bussey moved about 300 yards with log rollers and mules after buying the Riverside Plantation in 1909. He enlarged it into a summer home with a wraparound porch, a second-floor veranda, added kitchens and bedrooms, and a running water system. The plantation grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. The government acquired the property in 1918, when Camp Benning was founded, and Bussey received $439,000. Since then twenty-seven general officers have lived in the house, among them Omar N. Bradley, and the form lists every commandant from 1919 onward. The building measures about 120 by 50 feet and has changed little since it was completed. It is regarded as a local landmark and as the first image of the post for arriving soldiers.","period_of_significance":"20th Century","architect_builder":"Arthur Bussey (owner who enlarged the house)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as the commandant's quarters; condition listed as good and the structure is described as substantially as originally completed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.493405-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/71000272.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000272/1e705f9b3f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000272/1e705f9b3f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riverside_(Fort_Benning,_GA;_NRHP).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Riverside_(Fort_Benning,_GA;_NRHP).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207379","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_(Fort_Moore,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16965328"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chattahoochee-county/riverside-71000272/"}