{"nrhp_refnum":"74000682","name":"Roswell Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Barrington Hall","Bulloch Hall"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Big Creek, King and Dam Sts., SW along New Marietta Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roswell","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":34.01523307250005,"lon":-84.3614586359241,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 120-acre historic district in Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia, laid out in the late 1830s by Roswell King and Barrington King as a planned textile mill village around a town square, on a bluff above the Chattahoochee River.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the district keeps enough of its original layout and buildings to show a 19th-century planned manufacturing village. It highlights Greek Revival temple-form houses such as Barrington Hall, Bulloch Hall and Mimosa Hall, and the mill-worker housing, stores, churches and cemeteries tied to the Roswell Manufacturing Company. It identifies sixteen elements that together make up historic Roswell.","narrative":"Roswell's historic core, about 120 acres north of Atlanta, began as a planned mill village. Roswell King and his son Barrington King, with six other families from coastal Georgia, founded it in the late 1830s as Native Americans were removed from the area. Big Creek powered a cotton factory and a woolen mill. Around a town square the settlers placed houses, a store, a Presbyterian church, an academy and cemeteries. Builder Willis Ball, from Connecticut, produced several Greek Revival temple-form houses, including Barrington Hall, Bulloch Hall and the church. Mill workers lived in brick apartments known as the Old Bricks and in modest Factory Hill houses. Though the mill burned in 1864 and again in 1929, most other buildings remain much as built. The district was listed because sixteen surviving elements, along with the original street plan and topography, preserve a distinctive antebellum planned manufacturing community with a New England character in the South.","period_of_significance":"1837-1973","architect_builder":"Willis Ball, a Connecticut builder-architect (Barrington Hall, Bulloch Hall, Presbyterian Church); Neel Reid restored Mimosa Hall in 1917","architectural_style":"Late Georgian and neo-classical; Greek Revival temple-form houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and largely unaltered, with multiple uses (commercial, residential, religious, museum). The mill complex burned in 1864 and 1929 and survives as ruins and a dam. The Old Mill is not in active use, and the old stores were being restored.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.414307-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000682.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000682/9decd1c0e0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000682/9decd1c0e0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JT","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoswellOldPresbChurch.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">JT</a>, <a href=\"http://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:RoswellOldPresbChurch.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208324","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_Historic_District_(Roswell,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104690975"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/roswell-historic-district-74000682/"}