{"nrhp_refnum":"72000396","name":"Wynnwood","other_names":["The Elms"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1846 Buena Vista Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.46575255700003,"lon":-84.96567846599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century house known as \"The Elms,\" now called Wynnwood, at 1846 Buena Vista Road in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. The core house dates to 1834 (the form also gives 1844 as a specific date), and two hexagonal wings were added in 1868.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an unusual ante-bellum home with one of the most interesting types of hexagonal architecture in the South, a style said to be unique in the Southeast. The wings show Jeffersonian influence and the mid-century fad for octagonal buildings. Its adaptive use as a radio station with a public antique museum is also cited as a good example of a 20th-century use for a historic house.","narrative":"Wynnwood, originally called The Elms, is an ante-bellum house at 1846 Buena Vista Road in Columbus, Georgia. The original section, built in 1834 in a classical style, has Doric columns decorated with acanthus leaves. Lambert Spencer built it after buying the land in 1844. After the Civil War, Lloyd Bowers added two large hexagonal wings in 1868, giving the house the look of octagonal architecture. The wings reflect Jeffersonian influence, uncommon in the Piedmont, and the fashion for octagon houses. Inside, an itinerant painter decorated the ceilings with frescoes, and the floors were laid in black-and-white marble squares. Mrs. Bowers laid out a butterfly-shaped formal garden and planted elms along the front walk. A radio station bought the property in 1966 and turned the rear section into a sound center. The original mantles and frescoes form an antique museum open to visitors daily. The house was listed as an unusual regional example of hexagonal design and a restored community landmark.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1844)","architect_builder":"Built by Lambert Spencer; hexagonal wings added in 1868 by Lloyd Bowers I","architectural_style":"Ante-bellum house with Doric columns and hexagonal wings giving an appearance of octagonal architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Carefully restored and in use as the home of a radio station, with a museum portion open to the public daily; condition marked altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.516683-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000396.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000396/faf533a8fa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000396/faf533a8fa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Saverivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011-04-10_The_Elms;_Columbus,_GA_001.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Saverivers</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011-04-10_The_Elms;_Columbus,_GA_001.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209166","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynnwood","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134399340"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/wynnwood-72000396/"}