{"nrhp_refnum":"74000694","name":"Warm Springs Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"S of GA 194 and W of GA 85W","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warm Springs","county":"Meriwether County","state":"GA","lat":32.89231360000008,"lon":-84.68991248399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-30","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1980-01-16","areas_of_significance":["Science","Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district on the north slope of Pine Mountain in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia, covering the Warm Springs Foundation buildings, golf course, private cottages and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House, on about 235 acres.","why_significant":"The district has been known as a health resort since Indian times and became the only center devoted exclusively to the after-treatment of poliomyelitis. It was also Franklin D. Roosevelt's Georgia home, where New Deal policies such as the Bank Holiday and rural electrification were shaped. The Foundation layout by architect Henry Toombs is considered his most important work.","narrative":"On the north slope of Pine Mountain in Warm Springs, Georgia, this district gathers the Warm Springs Foundation hospital complex, a golf course, private cottages and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House. Springs flowing at a constant 89 degrees drew visitors long before the Foundation, first as a refuge for Native American warriors and later as a nineteenth-century resort. Roosevelt came in 1924 after contracting polio and founded the Foundation in 1927. Architect Henry Toombs designed most of the buildings over about forty years, including Georgia Hall, a chapel, and a quadrangle of connected structures around an open courtyard. Roosevelt's six-room clapboard cottage was completed in 1932. There, ideas for the National Bank Holiday and the Rural Electrification Administration took shape, and Roosevelt died there on April 12, 1945. The district is recognized for polio treatment, Roosevelt's political legacy and Toombs's architecture.","period_of_significance":"1830's; 1880-90; 1927-late 1960's","architect_builder":"Henry Toombs (architect of the Foundation buildings, cottages and Little White House); Joe Amasanto (Children's Hospital); Donald Ross (golf course designer)","architectural_style":"Simple frame or brick buildings in a relaxed manner with classical details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site; occupied, owned by the State of Georgia, and used as a museum and for scientific purposes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.636113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000694.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000694/059105ecd3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000694/059105ecd3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kåre Thor Olsen","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA-Georgia-Warm_Springs-Roosevelt%27s_Little_White_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Kåre Thor Olsen</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:USA-Georgia-Warm_Springs-Roosevelt%27s_Little_White_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208989","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7969573"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/meriwether-county/warm-springs-historic-district-74000694/"}