{"nrhp_refnum":"72000406","name":"Holly Court","other_names":["Ficklen-Lyndon-Johnson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"301 S. Alexander St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Wilkes County","state":"GA","lat":33.73345357900007,"lon":-82.73653150999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Holly Court, also called the Ficklen-Lyndon-Johnson House, is a two-story white clapboard townhouse at 301 South Alexander Street in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, formed by joining two Federal period houses around 1840.","why_significant":"It is presented as an innovative example of the common ante-bellum Washington practice of combining and remodeling houses into a planter's townhouse. It conveys the monumental Greek Revival impression Dr. Fielding Ficklen sought. It was also the site of historic events, including a stay by Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her children in 1864.","narrative":"Holly Court is a two-story, white clapboard townhouse at 301 South Alexander Street in Washington, Georgia. It was made by joining two plain Federal period houses from the early 1830s. Around 1840 Dr. Fielding Ficklen, a planter, had his plantation house moved to the site by ox-cart and connected to the existing house by a wide cross hall. A tall pedimented portico with paired Tuscan columns was added to the front. The house shows the common local practice of combining and remodeling buildings to make a town residence for a planter with land elsewhere in the county. Its lot was once owned by Billy Hoxey, a free man of color and house carpenter. In 1864 Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her children took refuge there. Later owners included Ficklen's son Burwell, whose household likely developed the gardens, and George E. Lyndon, a mayor of Washington. The house is also noted as part of the Water-Liberty Street District.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates c. 1833, c. 1840)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal period houses combined into an early Greek Revival townhouse","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, altered, on its original site, and used as a private residence. The form marks it both occupied and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.828897-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000406.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000406/e1ea268497-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000406/e1ea268497-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holly_Court_-_a_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_site.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:Holly_Court_-_a_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_site.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/93209959","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Court","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16920110"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/wilkes-county/holly-court-72000406/"}