{"nrhp_refnum":"76000650","name":"Greenwood Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"GA 84","address_restricted":false,"city":"Thomasville","county":"Thomas County","state":"GA","lat":30.85286743450004,"lon":-84.01766051571147,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Economics","Architecture","Social History","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large plantation district near Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, centered on a Greek Revival main house built 1835-1844 for Thomas P. Jones. The nominated 'Home Place' tract also holds outbuildings, a family cemetery, gardens and a stand of virgin longleaf pine.","why_significant":"The nomination calls the main house one of Georgia's finest Greek Revival buildings and one of few surviving works by architect John Wind, with early 20th-century additions by Stanford White. The plantation reflects southern agriculture from 1827 to the present, a winter-resort and hunting-preserve tradition, and modern conservation and forestry. Its later owners, the Payne and Whitney families, were figures of national significance in business, politics, the arts and philanthropy.","narrative":"Greenwood Plantation is a large estate outside Thomasville, Georgia, organized around a two-story brick and frame Greek Revival mansion. Thomas P. Jones began the plantation in 1827 and built the house between 1835 and 1844 using bricks fired and timbers cut on the property. English architect John Wind designed it, and its pedimented portico carries hand-carved ornament. In the early 20th century, Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne commissioned Stanford White to add wings, rear additions, bronze gates and sunken gardens. The nominated home-place tract also includes outbuildings, the Jones family cemetery, Pine Tree Boulevard and a stand of virgin longleaf pine. The property was listed for its architecture, its role in southern agriculture from rice and sharecropping to hybrid corn seed development, its quail hunting and conservation programs, and its ownership by the Payne and Whitney families, who were prominent in finance, politics, the arts and philanthropy.","period_of_significance":"1900- (plantation begun 1827; main house built 1835-44)","architect_builder":"Architect John Wind; builder Thomas Jones; later additions by Stanford White (McKim, Mead and White)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence and working plantation with agriculture and a hunting preserve; main house maintained and described as free of modern intrusions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.604753-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000650.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000650/2598fce96a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000650/2598fce96a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Ernest Ray Denmark","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenwoodinThomasvilleGeorgia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernest Ray Denmark</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenwoodinThomasvilleGeorgia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209643","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5605053"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/thomas-county/greenwood-plantation-76000650/"}