{"nrhp_refnum":"75000586","name":"Northwest Marietta Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by RR tracks, NW along Kennesaw Ave., McDonald St., and Whitlock Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marietta","county":"Cobb County","state":"GA","lat":33.96016866200006,"lon":-84.55617318209852,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Military","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 230-acre historic district in the northwest quadrant of Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, covering houses, commercial buildings and industrial structures along Kennesaw Avenue, Church, Polk and Whitlock streets and the L&N railroad tracks, dating from about 1830 to 1920.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is the largest and least intruded-upon historic area in Marietta and holds a cross section of the city's early life, from wealthy antebellum homes to middle-class housing, commercial buildings and factories. Its buildings reflect the growth brought by the Western and Atlantic Railroad and survived Civil War destruction and later urban sprawl. It also contains strong examples of Greek Revival, Victorian and neo-classical architecture.","narrative":"Northwest Marietta contains about 230 acres of nineteenth and early twentieth century buildings in Cobb County, Georgia. Along Kennesaw Avenue stand Greek Revival and Victorian houses such as \"Tranquilla\" (1849) and the Brumby-Sibley-Corley House (c. 1882). Church and Polk streets hold more modest middle-class homes, while Whitlock Avenue includes the Glover-Blair-Anderson House (c. 1851), described as one of the finest antebellum structures in the city. Near the L&N railroad tracks are the Brumby Chair Factory, the freight and passenger depots, and the Kennesaw House hotel, where the Andrews Raiders stayed before seizing the locomotive \"General\" in 1862. The district was recognized because the Western and Atlantic Railroad shaped the city's growth, the Civil War brought heavy destruction, and this area preserves the widest range of Marietta's early residential, commercial and industrial buildings with the fewest modern intrusions.","period_of_significance":"1830-1920?","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Victorian, Plantation Plain, neo-classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; one house on Kennesaw Avenue was being restored, and a few modern intrusions exist along the railroad and Kennesaw Avenue.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.398463-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/75000586.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000586/e567d4e49c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000586/e567d4e49c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RudyTravis","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Root_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RudyTravis</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:Root_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207599","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Marietta_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7060113"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/cobb-county/northwest-marietta-historic-district-75000586/"}