{"nrhp_refnum":"76000646","name":"Meadow Garden","other_names":["George Walton House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1230 Nelson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Augusta","county":"Richmond County","state":"GA","lat":33.47383495100007,"lon":-81.97984915299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-19","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1981-12-21","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Meadow Garden is a frame, one-and-one-half-story raised \"Sand Hills Cottage\" at 1230 Nelson Street in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. It combines a circa 1791 house with an early 19th century house joined to it later.","why_significant":"The form argues the house is a good example of the Sand Hills Cottage, a style native to the Augusta area. It is also significant as the home of George Walton, a Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence, who was also governor, chief justice and U.S. Senator. The form also notes that the campaign to save the house, begun in 1897, was among the nation's earliest preservation efforts.","narrative":"Meadow Garden is a raised frame cottage on Nelson Street in Augusta, built in the Sand Hills Cottage style that developed in the city's Summerville area. It actually joins two houses: a circa 1791 section on the south, which was the home of George Walton, and an early 19th century dwelling added on the north. Walton was born in Virginia in 1749 and became one of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence. He also served as governor, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and U.S. Senator, and died at Meadow Garden in 1804. The property later passed to the Nelson family, and in 1901 the Daughters of the American Revolution bought it for $2,000, raised through ten-cent contributions from members. Their campaign to save the house began in 1897 and is described as one of the nation's earliest preservation efforts. The house now operates as a museum on about two-fifths of an acre beside the Augusta Canal and Enterprise Mill.","period_of_significance":"Circa 1791","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Sand Hills Cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Open to the public as a house museum, owned by the Georgia Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, and undergoing refurbishing with period items being acquired.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.417674-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000646.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000646/308868b84a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000646/308868b84a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Flickr user Sir Mildred Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meadow_Garden_Augusta_Georgia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr user Sir Mildred Pierce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meadow_Garden_Augusta_Georgia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209387","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow_Garden_(Augusta,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6803236"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/richmond-county/meadow-garden-76000646/"}