{"nrhp_refnum":"74000676","name":"Habersham Memorial Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15th St., W of jct. with Piedmont Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.78857912800004,"lon":-84.37773818099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-06-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Habersham Memorial Hall is a two-story, hip-roofed, brick-stuccoed chapter house on 15th Street near Piedmont Park in the Ansley Park area of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. It was designed by Henry Hornbostel in 1921 and modeled on the c.1819 Bulloch-Habersham House in Savannah.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hall is a fine adaptation of William Jay's Regency style to the twentieth century, and a work of the prominent New York architect Henry Hornbostel, who also designed Emory University buildings and Callenwolde. Its exterior echoes the Savannah house while its interior is planned for meetings and entertaining. It is also a monumentally scaled institutional anchor on the edge of Ansley Park across from Piedmont Park.","narrative":"Habersham Memorial Hall is a chapter house on 15th Street in Atlanta, near Piedmont Park at the edge of the Ansley Park suburb. Designed in 1921 by New York architect Henry Hornbostel for the Joseph Habersham Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, it takes its form from the c.1819 Bulloch-Habersham House in Savannah, a William Jay Regency design. The two-story, hip-roofed, stuccoed brick building has a hexastyle portico with composite capitals decorated with eagles and acanthus leaves, and cast iron railings bearing the chapter's initials. Inside, the plan departs from a house layout, with a central hall, two large matching rooms, and a vast second-floor assembly room. Hornbostel also planned the Emory University campus and Callenwolde. The hall is valued as a twentieth-century adaptation of a historic Savannah design, as the work of a prominent architect, and as a focal point in its neighborhood. It remains in use as built.","period_of_significance":"1921 (20th Century)","architect_builder":"Henry Hornbostel (architect)","architectural_style":"Regency style of William Jay adapted to the twentieth century; early 20th century eclecticism and historicism","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a DAR chapter meeting house, still used as originally designed; condition listed as fair and altered, with a drama school and theater in the cellar.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.371788-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000676.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000676/5a3cbf0c77-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000676/5a3cbf0c77-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andre Richardson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Habersham_Hall_(2).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andre Richardson</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:Habersham_Hall_(2).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"76000629","name":"Piedmont Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/piedmont-park-76000629/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208214","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habersham_Memorial_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100835781"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/habersham-memorial-hall-74000676/"}