{"nrhp_refnum":"74000695","name":"Bennett, Nathan, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Dixie Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Madison","county":"Morgan County","state":"GA","lat":33.586799890000066,"lon":-83.48787034499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-storey frame house built in 1850 on Dixie Avenue in Madison, Morgan County, Georgia, set far back on a large open lot with trees. It has Italianate-style classical features and a Victorian bracketed porch.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house played an important role in the history of women's rights in Georgia. A dispute over its ownership, after a husband lost it in a poker game in 1863, led to the 1869 change in the law that let women own property in their own names. It is also valued as a fine, largely intact example of Victorian-style architecture with delicate cut-out wood detailing.","narrative":"Built in 1850 by Milton B. Davis on Dixie Avenue in Madison, Georgia, this two-storey frame house sits far back from the road on a large lot dotted with trees. It is five bays wide and four deep, with two-storey wooden pilasters, a nearly flat roof with white wooden brackets, and a one-storey porch with five arches and carpenter lacework spandrels. Inside, a central hall holds a walnut staircase with cut-out filigree, original pine floors and Italian marble mantels. The house is also tied to a turning point in women's property rights. After Davis, it passed to John Cardwell and then to his daughter Amanda, wife of Junius P. Smith. In 1863 Smith lost the house to James Mann in a poker game. Because the law treated him as his wife's agent, he could legally dispose of it, and the resulting controversy helped bring about the 1869 change allowing women to own property in their own names.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date 1850","architect_builder":"Milton B. Davis (builder)","architectural_style":"Victorian with classical details in an Italianate mode","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent, unaltered, on its original site, and used as a private residence. The original rear kitchen is no longer extant, and a bath has been added upstairs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.217792-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000695.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000695/a17ee19e70-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000695/a17ee19e70-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Quentin Melson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathan_Bennett_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Quentin Melson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathan_Bennett_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"89002159","name":"Madison Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/madison-historic-district-boundary-increase-89002159/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209025","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134392290"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/morgan-county/bennett-nathan-house-74000695/"}