{"nrhp_refnum":"75000580","name":"Dearing Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Crane,Ross,House","Chase,Albon,House","Wilkins House","Ha"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Broad and Baxter Sts., Milledge Ave., and includes both sides of Finley St. and Henderson Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.95316978950004,"lon":-83.38515357959159,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, roughly half a mile square on a ridge west of the university campus and downtown. It is bounded by Dearing, Finley, Waddell, Pope and Henderson streets and Milledge Avenue, and holds mostly frame houses from the 1830s through the early 20th century.","why_significant":"The district contains several of the oldest houses in Athens, including the city's oldest surviving Greek Revival house (1834), along with Italianate houses, Victorian cottages and Neo-Classical Revival mansions. It was also home to university professors, editors, authors, businessmen and a chancellor whose writings and careers shaped knowledge of 19th-century Athens.","narrative":"Dearing Street Historic District occupies a level ridge west of the university campus and downtown in Athens, Georgia, about half a mile on each side. Nearly all its houses, and all the old ones, are frame, typical of the Georgia Piedmont. Among them are some of the oldest homes in the city, such as the Rucker-Teague house, dating from about 1810-20, and the Lehmann-Bancroft-Land house of 1834, described as the oldest Greek Revival house left in Athens, with four two-story Doric columns and a pediment. Three large Italianate houses from the late 1850s and early 1860s, many cottages from the 1870s onward, and Neo-Classical Revival mansions along Milledge Avenue add variety. Residents included university professors and a chancellor, newspaper editors, mill owners, and two authors whose books describe 19th-century Athens. Two notable houses were lost to demolition in the 1960s, but the district retains much of its early character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Late Victorian Eclectic, Neo-Classical Revival and Neo-Georgian; predominantly frame construction","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition but altered; two significant houses were demolished in 1963 and 1965, and some houses have been restored. Uses are private residence and commercial.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.296976-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/75000580.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000580/51a9d02f4d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000580/51a9d02f4d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Patmcalex","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meeker-Pope-Barrow_House_(Boxwood)_197_Dearing_Street_1859.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Patmcalex</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:Meeker-Pope-Barrow_House_(Boxwood)_197_Dearing_Street_1859.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207450","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49482368"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/dearing-street-historic-district-75000580/"}