{"nrhp_refnum":"74000696","name":"Madison Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Bonar Hall","Felton,Rebecca Latimer,House","Madison His"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded on both sides by U.S. 441","address_restricted":false,"city":"Madison","county":"Morgan County","state":"GA","lat":33.59387102800005,"lon":-83.4708676100484,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 250 acres covering the core residential area of nineteenth-century Madison, Morgan County, Georgia, centered on Main, Old Post Road, Academy, Wellington, Jefferson and Washington Streets and the town square.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Madison preserves an exceptional wealth of 19th-century architecture made possible by the cotton economy, the cultured town life of its planters, and the arrival of the Georgia Railroad. Houses range from plantation plain and Greek Revival cottages and mansions to rambling Victorian homes. Madison was also spared from destruction during the Civil War.","narrative":"Madison, Georgia, has a district of roughly 250 acres that holds the core of its nineteenth-century residential neighborhoods. Tree-lined streets such as Main, Old Post Road, Academy, Jefferson and Washington hold houses ranging from a frame servant's quarters to Greek Revival cottages, columned mansions and sprawling Victorian homes. Notable examples include Boxwood (1851), the Stokes McHenry House, Bonar Hall, the Nathan Hunter House and several churches, among them an 1840 red brick Episcopal church. The district reflects the wealth that cotton planters and merchants built after settling in the area, along with their investment in schools, including a women's college founded in 1849, and the arrival of the Georgia Railroad. A Federal soldier described the town as the prettiest village he had seen in the state, and Madison was spared from Sherman's destruction after a plea from Senator Joshua Hill. A later addition recognized the Bearden Chambers House, a Victorian cottage of about 1850.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, plantation plain, early Victorian and later Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent and altered, with the property occupied and in private residential, commercial, government and religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.801532-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/74000696.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000696/47625f416f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000696/47625f416f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Quentin Melson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madison_Historic_District.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:Madison_Historic_District.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/93209035","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Historic_District_(Madison,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6728014"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/morgan-county/madison-historic-district-74000696/"}