{"nrhp_refnum":"72000395","name":"Wynnton Academy","other_names":["Wynnton School Library","Red Brick Schoolhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2303 Wynnton Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.465891535000026,"lon":-84.97429231399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room brick schoolhouse built in 1843 as the Wynnton Male Academy at 2303 Wynnton Road, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. It is now stuccoed and painted white and serves as the Wynnton School library.","why_significant":"The building is generally considered the oldest in continuous use as a school facility in Georgia. It opened in 1843 as a boys' academy built by local citizens and later became part of the public school system. The area of significance is education.","narrative":"Built in 1843 as a one-room school for boys, the Wynnton Academy, long known as the Red Brick Schoolhouse, still serves students today as the library of Wynnton School in Columbus, Georgia. Local citizens erected it, and a cornerstone on the east front corner records that fact. The brick walls are now stuccoed and painted white, though the original porch remains, and the door, doorknob, doorstep and window panes are said to date to 1843. Inside, the brick walls are exposed. The school opened on June 17, 1843, with J. M. Goodale as first teacher, and a Female Academy was built nearby. It later operated as Wynnton College, served as an armory for military students, and became part of the city school system when Wynnton was annexed in 1925. It was a lunchroom until 1948, then the library. It is generally regarded as the oldest building in continuous school use in Georgia.","period_of_significance":"1843","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"In use as the library of Wynnton School since 1948; condition marked good, with original door, doorknob, doorstep and window panes reported from 1843.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.303237-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000395.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000403","name":"Wynn's Hill-Overlook-Oak Circle Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/wynns-hill-overlook-oak-circle-historic-district-05000403/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209162","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/wynnton-academy-72000395/"}