{"nrhp_refnum":"76000640","name":"Chennault House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Danburg at jct. of GA 44 and GA 79","address_restricted":false,"city":"Danburg","county":"Lincoln County","state":"GA","lat":33.90636801900004,"lon":-82.60777797723199,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story late Greek Revival frame house with a full-width portico, built around 1850 to 1858 on a roughly 138-acre farm tract near Danburg in Lincoln County, Georgia, for Abraham D. Chennault.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally important as the second in a sequence of four related late Greek Revival houses within a six-mile radius, probably influenced by a single master builder. It also has local historical associations with the Chennault family and the period just before and during the Civil War. The state evaluated its significance as local.","narrative":"Set on farmland along Neuford Creek near Danburg in Lincoln County, Georgia, the Chennault House is a two-story frame house in the late Greek Revival style. It has a high-pitched gabled roof, a full-width two-story portico with six Tuscan-Doric columns, and two central chimneys serving eight fireplaces. The plan places four rooms around a central hall with a straight stair. Tax records suggest Abraham D. Chennault financed construction between about 1856 and 1858. His mother's will and estate papers link her to the land under the house. The house was altered in 1918 by John Oliver Chennault, who added rooms at the rear. Its main importance lies in architecture. It is one of four related houses in the Danburg area, along with the Willis-Sale-Stennett, Matthews and Anderson houses, which show the Greek Revival shifting toward Victorian influence. Carpenter John Cunningham may have been the master builder of the first three.","period_of_significance":"1855-60","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a private residence in agricultural use, occupied, with exterior repainting and repairs recently completed by the owners.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.304421-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000640.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000640/42cc203cf3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000640/42cc203cf3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chennault_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:Chennault_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208805","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134383052"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/lincoln-county/chennault-house-76000640/"}