{"nrhp_refnum":"75002071","name":"Emory University District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N. Decatur Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"DeKalb County","state":"GA","lat":33.791628060500045,"lon":-84.31937401790702,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Education","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A university campus historic district at Emory University on North Decatur Road in Atlanta, De Kalb County, Georgia. The campus was founded in 1915 and planned by architect Henry Hornbostel on land in the Olmsted-planned Druid Hills community.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant as an educational institution, an architectural complex, a landscape setting and part of a residential community. It preserves the central portion of Hornbostel's campus plan and its Georgia-marble buildings in a modern Italianate style. It also recognizes work by nationally known architects and craftsmen such as Edward Tilton, Philip Shutze and Herbert J. Millard.","narrative":"Emory University's historic core sits on a wooded, rolling site in Atlanta's Druid Hills, land donated by Asa Griggs Candler when the university was founded in 1915 as an outgrowth of Emory College at Oxford. New York architect Henry Hornbostel laid out a comprehensive campus plan around a main quadrangle and designed the first buildings, including the Law and Theology schools of 1916 and the Anatomy and Physiology laboratories of 1917. These reinforced concrete buildings are faced in pink and gray Georgia marble laid in an irregular pattern, with red tile roofs and arched windows that recall Italian villas. Later work includes the 1926 Candler Library by Edward Tilton and buildings by Hentz-Adler-Shutze, among them Glenn Memorial Church and its Little Chapel. The district was listed because it preserves the central part of Hornbostel's plan, which blended with natural dogwoods and pines, and because it reflects Methodist and Candler family influence on the campus.","period_of_significance":"1915","architect_builder":"Henry Hornbostel (Palmer, Hornbostel and Jones); Arthur Tufts, builder; Edward Tilton; Hentz-Adler-Shutze (Philip Shutze)","architectural_style":"Modern Italianate (Hornbostel); Italian Renaissance and Wren-style designs in later buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, occupied and in educational use. The form notes that later multi-story buildings have encroached on the original plan.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:39.967034-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/75002071.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002071/b1fe5387e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002071/b1fe5387e7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Mpspqr at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emory_Glenn_Chapel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mpspqr at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emory_Glenn_Chapel.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"00000300","name":"Emory Grove Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/emory-grove-historic-district-00000300/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207773","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57313793"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dekalb-county/emory-university-district-75002071/"}