{"nrhp_refnum":"72000403","name":"Cedars, The (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["The Cedar Retreat"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 Sims St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Wilkes County","state":"GA","lat":33.74141668900006,"lon":-82.73841931099997,"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 rambling eighteen-room house on a high hill in the northern section of Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, built in stages from about 1793, about 1805 and about 1885.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a good example of the large, asymmetrical, richly ornamented High Victorian home. It also shows how the town developed after the Civil War, with a prominent hilltop position and a long view to the square. Its layered history runs from an early frame house through later additions and many owners.","narrative":"Perched on a high hill in the northern part of Washington, Georgia, The Cedars is an eighteen-room house assembled in three stages. The oldest part is a kitchen, all that remains of a house built about 1793 by Dr. Anthony Poullain, a French physician and Revolutionary War surgeon. A one-story addition of about 1805 forms the central and rear sections. About 1885 Marshall Sims added the two-story front, with a tower, multiple gables, a wraparound veranda and elaborate cut-work trim that give the house its High Victorian character. Inside, a wide hall and two soapstone mantels inlaid with dark marble stand out. Sims's descendants believe he designed the house with generous space for his ten children. The land also passed through George Walton, John Bolton and several other owners. The house is valued as a good example of Victorian domestic design and as a reminder of the town's post-Civil War growth, with a long view toward the public square.","period_of_significance":"c. 1793, c. 1805, c. 1885","architect_builder":"Anthony Poullain (original house, c. 1793); Marshall Sims (front addition, c. 1885)","architectural_style":"High Victorian, with Eastlake-like decoration and Italianate and stick-style influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and used as a private residence; condition marked fair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.131364-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000403.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000403/b0db5d4ee6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000403/b0db5d4ee6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cedars_in_Washington.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:The_Cedars_in_Washington.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04001319","name":"Washington Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/washington-historic-district-04001319/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209945","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cedars_(Washington,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16977311"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/wilkes-county/cedars-the-additional-documentation-72000403/"}