{"nrhp_refnum":"71000283","name":"Pemberton House","other_names":["See also:Columbus Historic District"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"11 7th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.45933116400005,"lon":-84.99262927999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A simple one-story frame cottage with white clapboard facade at 11 Seventh Street, Columbus, Georgia, built about 1855 and moved two and one-half blocks from its original Third Avenue site into the local historic district.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant as the home from 1855 to 1860 of Dr. John Styth Pemberton, originator of the Coca-Cola formula. It claims Columbus is the birthplace of the cola industry and that the house is of international importance. It also notes the cottage's simple architecture, restored to its 1855-1860 appearance.","narrative":"This small one-story frame cottage in Columbus, Georgia, was the home of pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton from 1855 to 1860. Pemberton later originated the formula for Coca-Cola, and the nomination presents the house as a landmark of that story, calling Columbus the birthplace of the cola industry. The white clapboard house has two end gables, a gabled front porch, a brick foundation and a cedar shake roof. Inside are four rooms: a parlor, a dining room and two bedrooms. A small outbuilding behind it served as a kitchen and the place where Pemberton is thought to have developed patent medicines. A fire had badly altered the interior, so restoration aimed to return the house to its 1855-1860 look, including removal of gingerbread trim added in the late 1880s. The house was moved from Third Avenue, where businesses were crowding in, to Seventh Street inside the city's historic district. Historic Columbus Foundation planned to operate it as a house museum.","period_of_significance":"1855-1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Under restoration by Historic Columbus Foundation, which owns it, and scheduled to operate as a house museum; the interior had been altered by a fire and the 1880s Victorian gingerbread was removed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.158118-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/71000283.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000283/a6de4cb992-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000283/a6de4cb992-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ken Owens Photography","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pemberton_House_2014.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Owens Photography</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:Pemberton_House_2014.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"69000045","name":"Columbus Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/columbus-historic-district-69000045/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209124","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemberton_House_(Columbus,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16932266"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/pemberton-house-71000283/"}