{"nrhp_refnum":"76000659","name":"Pharr-Callaway-Sethness House","other_names":["Old Pharr Place"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Tignall on GA 2193","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tignall","county":"Wilkes County","state":"GA","lat":33.93733869500005,"lon":-82.73653560999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-03-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story joined farmhouse about 2½ miles north of Tignall, Wilkes County, Georgia, made by combining two structures, probably built in the 1820s, that were moved to the site and joined in 1860-1861. It sits on an 800-acre tract of fields, pasture and woodland.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant mainly because it resulted from the careful joining of two earlier houses. John L. Wynn probably did this to give his daughter Mary a home quickly after her 1860 marriage to Abram J. Pharr. The builders took care to unify the house visually and structurally, and the property carries the history of the Pharr, Walton and Callaway families.","narrative":"Located about 2½ miles north of Tignall in Wilkes County, Georgia, this two-story farmhouse was made by joining two earlier buildings, probably built in the 1820s and moved to the site in 1860. Hand-split lath points to a date before 1830 for the originals. The joining in 1860-1861 gave the house a unified Greek Revival look, with a symmetrical front, a transomed double-door entry with sidelights, a central hall plan and matching windows. John L. Wynn probably arranged the work to provide his daughter Mary with a home soon after her marriage to Abram J. Pharr in June 1860. Pharr died in Virginia in 1863. Mary later remarried, and the property passed to Pharr's son's widow, Mamie, who later married Richard D. Callaway. Several outbuildings stand close by, including a smoke house that may be the oldest. The house has not been lived in by its owner for decades and has deteriorated. The current owners planned to restore it to its 1861 condition.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival features on a plantation plain style plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied with work in progress; in worsening condition, with owners intending to restore it to its 1861 appearance.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.640617-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000659.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209971","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/wilkes-county/pharr-callaway-sethness-house-76000659/"}