{"nrhp_refnum":"72000402","name":"Arnold-Callaway Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Washington on U.S. 78","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Wilkes County","state":"GA","lat":33.77428948600004,"lon":-82.81265129099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Greek Revival plantation house known as the Brickhouse, on the Lexington-Washington Highway near Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, built around 1869 by Aristides Callaway. It is the main building in a complex maintained by the City of Washington.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unusual late example of Greek Revival plantation architecture, with atypical and transitional details that show classical monumentality persisting in post-Civil War Georgia. Its large-scale brick construction was uncommon for the Piedmont and for the late 1860s. It also documents the Callaway family's prominence, alongside two earlier relocated buildings.","narrative":"Known locally as the Brickhouse, this large plantation house sits on the high point of former Callaway family land along the Lexington-Washington Highway near Washington, Georgia. It follows the traditional Greek Revival plan, with a wide central hall, four rooms per floor and a six-column portico across the front. Details such as bracketed column capitals, an unusually wide frieze, frosted fleur-de-lis transom glass and large-pane windows point to a later date. Deed records show no house here as late as 1868, and lock dates of 1869 suggest Aristides Callaway built it soon after. Brick was an uncommon material in the Piedmont, and building on this scale was notable while Wilkes County's economy was only beginning to recover. The house shows how classical forms persisted after the Civil War. It was donated to the city, which moved a c. 1785 log cabin and the c. 1817 Parker Callaway homestead onto the grounds to illustrate the family's history.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date c. 1869)","architect_builder":"Aristides Callaway (original builder)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (late, transitional, with Victorian details)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered; the property is owned by the City of Washington and maintained as part of a complex that includes two relocated earlier buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.056666-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000402.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000402/2111620c60-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000402/2111620c60-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"A P Wood","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold-Callaway_Plantation.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">A P Wood</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:Arnold-Callaway_Plantation.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209941","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaway_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5021801"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/wilkes-county/arnold-callaway-plantation-72000402/"}