{"nrhp_refnum":"73000613","name":"Orange Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"311 Osborne St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Marys","county":"Camden County","state":"GA","lat":30.72423360700003,"lon":-81.54805928899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Orange Hall is a two-story Greek Revival temple-form frame house at 311 Osborne Street in St. Marys, Camden County, Georgia, probably built between 1846 and 1853.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a fine example of raised Greek Revival architecture, with a Doric prostyle temple form and sophisticated proportion and scale. It also examines deed and tax records to date the house, which oral tradition places in the 1820s. The records suggest James M. Smith built the present structure, perhaps incorporating an earlier Pratt-era building.","narrative":"Orange Hall is a gray frame house at 311 Osborne Street in St. Marys, Georgia, built in the Greek Revival style as a Doric temple. Two stories and five bays wide, it rises from a stuccoed brick daylight basement. A portico with four widely spaced fluted Doric columns and a low pedimented gable marks the front, and a central stair leads up to a pilaster-framed entrance with transom and sidelights. Inside, a four-room central hall plan includes doors and windows with carved corner medallions showing magnolia-like flowers. Oral tradition dates the house to the 1820s and links it to the Horace Pratt family, but deed and tax records point to James M. Smith building it between 1846 and 1853, possibly incorporating an earlier structure. The name comes from the hedges and avenues of sour orange trees that once surrounded the lot. Privately owned until 1960, it was then deeded to the city and now serves as a library and civic center.","period_of_significance":"c.1846-56 (19th Century)","architect_builder":"James M. Smith (probable builder, according to the form)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (raised, Doric prostyle temple form)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Serves as a library and civic center; owned by the city since 1960. Condition is listed as fair and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.500076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/73000613.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000613/451af5129d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000613/451af5129d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Legohead","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_Hall_(St_Marys).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Legohead</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:Orange_Hall_(St_Marys).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207204","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Hall_(St._Marys,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7099638"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/camden-county/orange-hall-73000613/"}