{"nrhp_refnum":"74000662","name":"Eudora Plantation","other_names":["Old Jones Place"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3.5 mi. S of Quitman off GA 33","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quitman","county":"Brooks County","state":"GA","lat":30.733017350500035,"lon":-83.54671084942368,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Eudora Plantation, also called \"The Old Jones Place,\" is a two-story Greek Revival plantation house on a 561.2-acre tract 3.4 miles south of Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, reputedly built between 1835 and the mid-1850s.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as one of the few remaining examples of the prosperity Brooks County once had and as one of the county's outstanding houses. It is a late Greek Revival plantation house with Victorian embellishments, notably an unusual ogee-arched doorway. The construction date and builder are uncertain, as no records place the house on the lot before 1901.","narrative":"Eudora Plantation is a two-story, eleven-room Greek Revival mansion about 3.4 miles south of Quitman, Georgia, set amid pasture, forest and cropland along Piscola Creek. It has a central hall plan, six Doric columns with eighteen flutes each on brick plinths, heart pine floors in twenty-foot lengths, and an ogee-arched doorway unusual for the area. Local tradition says Major Frances Jones built it for his bride, Rachel Spain, between 1835 and 1848, and credits architect John Wind of Thomasville with the design. No written records confirm the date or the builder, and physical evidence in the sills, floorboards, windows, stairway and doorway points to conflicting dates. The house was later rented, and restoration began in 1962. It is valued locally as an outstanding example of a late Greek Revival plantation house with Victorian touches, and as a reminder of the prosperity Brooks County once enjoyed.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date somewhere between 1835 and mid 1850's","architect_builder":"Tradition credits John Wind, an English architect of Thomasville, with the design; construction is attributed to Major Frances Jones, but this is unverified.","architectural_style":"Greek Revival with Victorian decorative elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as excellent. The house is occupied as a private residence and farmland, and is being restored and maintained by its owners.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.21479-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000662.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000662/b8383b60fe-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000662/b8383b60fe-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jean K. Buckly","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eudora_Plantation,_Brooks_County,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean K. Buckly</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eudora_Plantation,_Brooks_County,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207125","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5406746"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/brooks-county/eudora-plantation-74000662/"}