{"nrhp_refnum":"76000625","name":"Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"335 Ivy St., NE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.763944138000056,"lon":-84.38518183899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Education","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twin-towered Roman Catholic church at 335 Ivy Street, N.E., in downtown Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, completed and dedicated in 1898 and designed by architect Walter Thomas Downing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an unusually innovative and synthesized Romanesque Revival design by a notable southern architect, with fine stained glass and wall paintings. It also served for decades as the religious and educational center of Atlanta's Catholic community, anchoring a complex of parish institutions.","narrative":"Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic church on Ivy Street in downtown Atlanta, dedicated on May 1, 1898. Architect Walter T. Downing designed it in the Romanesque Revival style, using pressed brick, terra cotta and marble. Two identical towers rise 137 feet on the western facade, topped by octagonal belfries and copper spires. Inside, a nave with side aisles, galleries, ribbed barrel vaulting and an ambulatory follows a thirteen-foot module. Stained glass windows were added in 1902, and the altar and apse paintings date from 1939. The church was built by the Marist Fathers and later passed to the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Around it grew a parish complex that included Atlanta's first Catholic high school, founded in 1902, a parochial school and a rectory. The nomination presents the church as an important Downing work, a distinctive blend of European Romanesque ideas, and a landmark of the city's Catholic community.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":"Walter Thomas Downing","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the Archdiocese of Atlanta and listed as occupied and in religious use; the adjacent 1914 rectory is described as vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.416889-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000625.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000625/2fcef84aed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000625/2fcef84aed-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ZeWrestler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacred_Heart_Basilica_(Atlanta).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ZeWrestler</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:Sacred_Heart_Basilica_(Atlanta).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208128","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Sacred_Heart_of_Jesus_(Atlanta)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7397104"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/church-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-76000625/"}