{"nrhp_refnum":"74000665","name":"Savannah Victorian Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Savannah Victorian District (Boundary Increase)"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Gwinnett, Price, Anderson, and Montgomery Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.064741622500065,"lon":-81.096680521781,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic residential district of about 45 city blocks (roughly 150 acres) in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, just south of the original city settlement. Wards and lots were laid out between 1868 and 1872, and most building took place between 1870 and 1897.","why_significant":"The district holds an unusually high concentration of post-Civil War domestic architecture in three styles: Carpenter \"Box\", brick row houses, and Queen Anne. It was Savannah's first suburb, made possible by the extension of street railways, and it housed hard-working middle-class families. It is also tied to several notable Savannah figures and to work by architects such as William Gibbons Preston and A. S. Eichburg.","narrative":"Savannah's Victorian district covers about 45 blocks south of the city's original settlement and adjoins Forsyth Park and its Park Extension, a former military parade ground. Wards and lots were laid out between 1868 and 1872 on land Oglethorpe's plan had designated as farm lots. Street railways made the area workable as Savannah's first suburb, and most building took place between 1870 and 1897. Most houses are two-storey wood Carpenter \"Box\" dwellings with lace-like wooden trim. The district also has brick row houses with cast iron lintels and later Queen Anne houses with turrets and fine detail. Architects including William Gibbons Preston and A. S. Eichburg designed homes and institutional buildings there, among them Telfair Hospital and the Henry Street School. Many other houses came from the Home Building Company, which used published cottage plans. The district was listed for its concentrated, intact late nineteenth-century middle-class neighborhood, with a tree-lined grid of brick sidewalks and narrow lots.","period_of_significance":"1870-1897","architect_builder":"William Gibbons Preston; A. S. Eichburg; Home Building Company (builder of many houses)","architectural_style":"Carpenter \"Box\" style, brick row houses with cast iron lintels, and High Victorian Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described in 1974 as in fair condition, generally run down and in poor repair, with some individual restoration efforts under way and commercial intrusions along the north-south streets.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.003184-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000665.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000665/8e80e65341-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000665/8e80e65341-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Photoartel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gingerbread_House_in_Savannah.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photoartel</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:Gingerbread_House_in_Savannah.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82002392","name":"Savannah Victorian Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/savannah-victorian-historic-district-boundary-increase-82002392/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207345","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Victorian_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7427894"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/savannah-victorian-historic-district-74000665/"}