{"nrhp_refnum":"72001469","name":"Old Medical College Historical Area","other_names":["Middle Georgia Medical College"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"223-233 E. Broadway St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Griffin","county":"Spalding County","state":"GA","lat":33.25113858000003,"lon":-84.26096283199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-12-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-building group at 223-233 East Broadway Street in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia, made up of the former Middle Georgia Medical College building (original section early 1850s, enlarged c. 1860) and an adjacent one-story dog-trot house.","why_significant":"The medical college building is the only one of four pre-Civil War college buildings still standing in Griffin. The adjacent house was the residence of the school's founder, Dr. E. F. Knott. Together they show the architecture of Griffin's earliest development, combining Greek Revival with mid-Victorian additions.","narrative":"Two buildings on East Broadway Street in Griffin, Georgia, face the railroad yards in one of the city's oldest sections. The larger is the former Middle Georgia Medical College, a two-story stuccoed brick building begun in the early 1850s as a simplified Greek Revival house and enlarged around 1860 with a dining hall and later a Victorian wing. A colossal Tuscan portico wraps its street facades. Beside it stands a smaller one-story dog-trot house, home of the school's founder, Dr. E. F. Knott. The college was incorporated in 1859 and granted medical degrees before the Civil War, but Knott lost the building at a sheriff's sale in 1866. It later became the Goddard House hotel, then the Southern Hotel, and was afterward divided into apartments. It is the only one of four pre-war college buildings left in Griffin, and the pair records the town's earliest development after its 1840 founding as a railroad center.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850-55; 1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival with mid-Victorian additions","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both buildings are altered by later wings, doors and partitions but retain mid-19th century character; the medical building was later remodeled into apartments, and a historical society plans to restore them as its headquarters.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.999858-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72001469.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209467","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/spalding-county/old-medical-college-historical-area-72001469/"}