{"nrhp_refnum":"77000423","name":"Alexander-Cleveland House","other_names":["Cleveland House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3.5 mi. NE of Ruckersville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ruckersville","county":"Elbert County","state":"GA","lat":34.187301883500055,"lon":-82.73665931404287,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame plantation plain house about 3.5 miles northeast of Ruckersville in Elbert County, Georgia, near the Savannah River, built by William Alexander, most probably in 1791.","why_significant":"The nomination argued it was of statewide architectural significance as a relatively intact 18th-century plantation plain house, with a two-over-two room plan, gabled roof and exterior end chimneys. It was also of local importance as an early frame house in Elbert County. Later documents record that fire destroyed the house in June 1982.","narrative":"Built most probably in 1791 by William Alexander, this two-story frame house sat on a hill near where Coldwater Creek meets the Savannah River in Elbert County, Georgia. It followed the plantation plain form: two rooms over two, a gabled roof, double-hipped exterior end chimneys and enclosed front and rear shed porches, giving six rooms on the main floor. The chimneys carried a barely legible date and the initials W.A. Inside, wide pine sheathing, beaded wainscot and six-panel doors survived. Alexander bought the land in 1789 and held it until 1796, and the Cleveland family later owned it for well over a century. A local tradition claimed a date of 1741, but deed research pointed to the 1790s. The house was valued as a relatively intact 18th-century example and as an early frame house in the county. It stood unoccupied, and a fire destroyed it in June 1982.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"William Alexander (builder)","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied at the time of nomination. Documents in the file report that a fire totally destroyed the vacant house on 22 June 1982, after it had been documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey, and that removal from the Register was recommended.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.095672-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/77000423.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207921","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/elbert-county/alexander-cleveland-house-77000423/"}