{"nrhp_refnum":"74000657","name":"Valley View","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Euharlee Rd., SW of Cartersville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cartersville","county":"Bartow County","state":"GA","lat":34.13993486500004,"lon":-84.86760173799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Valley View is a brick, two-story plantation house with an Ionic colonnade, built about 1850 on Euharlee Road near Cartersville in Bartow County, Georgia, by Col. James Caldwell Sproull.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is of national architectural significance as a superbly preserved and carefully sited variant of Greek Revival design, notable for its U-shaped plan and formal boxwood gardens. It has remained in the same family and is essentially in original condition, including outbuildings, original paint and furnishings. It also has Civil War associations, including occupation by Union forces.","narrative":"Overlooking the Etowah Valley from a hilltop off Euharlee Road near Cartersville, Valley View is a brick plantation house built about 1850 by Col. James Caldwell Sproull, who moved from Abbeville, South Carolina, and developed a large cotton plantation. The two-story house has an Ionic colonnade, a hanging balcony on three sides, and one-story rear wings that enclose a courtyard. Two formal gardens with triple hedges of Carolina cherry and boxwood front the house, and original outbuildings remain behind it, including a smokehouse, water tower and two-room kitchen. The nomination describes it as an exceptionally well-preserved Greek Revival variant with a U-shaped plan. The house stayed in one family and retains original milk-base paint, maple furniture and kitchen utensils. During the Civil War, Union forces used it and General George W. Schofield occupied it for three months. The grand piano, once turned into a watering trough, remains in the parlor.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850 (19th Century)","architect_builder":"Col. James Caldwell Sproull (builder/owner)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site; occupied as a private residence used as a weekend and summer retreat.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.424891-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000657.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206962","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134085578"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bartow-county/valley-view-74000657/"}