{"nrhp_refnum":"73002144","name":"Sam Bailey Building","other_names":["Sam Bailey Male Institute"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Poplar and 4th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Griffin","county":"Spalding County","state":"GA","lat":33.24650252500004,"lon":-84.25964824899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate brick school building on the north side of East Poplar Street at Fourth Street in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia, built in 1870 as the Griffin Male Institute and later known as Sam Bailey School.","why_significant":"It is described as the oldest public school building in Griffin and has served continuously as a school since 1870. It was built by Gilman Jonathan Drake, one of the city's pioneer builders, and is considered a significant architectural monument. It is also tied to the development of public education in Griffin.","narrative":"Sam Bailey Building is a two-story red brick school on East Poplar Street in Griffin, Georgia, completed in 1870 for the Griffin Male Institute. Its Italianate styling includes brick pilasters, a brick entablature-like band, arched windows with corbelled brick hoods, paired white wooden brackets under the cornice, and a west entrance with a balcony topped by urns. The building was named for Sam Wesley Bailey, a banker who gave generously to its building fund. Gilman Jonathan Drake, a New Hampshire-born carpenter who became one of Griffin's major builders, constructed it on land the city provided. It began as a private school, briefly became public in 1873, and joined the permanent public system in the 1880s. It is regarded as the oldest public school building in Griffin and has been used as a school ever since. Interior remodeling in 1957 subdivided large rooms, but the exterior appears much as it did in the 1870s.","period_of_significance":"1870","architect_builder":"Gilman Jonathan Drake (builder)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Continuously used as a school since 1870; interior remodeled in 1957 and now part of the high school campus; condition marked 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 02:55:41.51348-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/73002144.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002144/85c73d2dd0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002144/85c73d2dd0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Bailey_Building,_Griffin,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Bailey_Building,_Griffin,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209471","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bailey_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16933014"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/spalding-county/sam-bailey-building-73002144/"}