{"nrhp_refnum":"77000445","name":"Rutledge House","other_names":["Rebel Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of LaGrange on Bartley Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"La Grange","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":32.93008921650005,"lon":-85.07242685218884,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival plantation house, known as \"Rebel Hall,\" on Bartley Road between West Point and LaGrange in Troup County, Georgia, built 1850-52 by an Englishman named Urpe.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of mid-19th-century Greek Revival architecture and one of the state's foremost examples of the style. It is also noted for its unusual heavy dentil motif and its rare \"good morning\" staircase, and for its link to cotton planter Joseph Rutledge.","narrative":"Rebel Hall, also called the Rutledge House, is a two-story Greek Revival residence on Bartley Road between West Point and LaGrange, Georgia. Built from 1850 to 1852 by an English builder named Urpe, it originally had a colossal portico of fluted Doric columns on three sides. Inside, a central-hall plan holds eight rooms with ten-foot ceilings, paneled wainscoting and simple mantels. Its most distinctive feature is the \"good morning\" staircase, whose landing leads to two short flights going in different directions, a form found only occasionally in Georgia. The heavy dentil motif under the eaves is also unusual. Joseph Rutledge, a middle-class cotton planter who owned about forty slaves before the Civil War, lived here until 1892. A retired Army colonel bought and restored the house in 1948 and gave it its current nickname. The nomination presents it as one of the state's foremost Greek Revival houses, though at the time the roof had rotted and the interior had badly deteriorated.","period_of_significance":"1850-1852","architect_builder":"Urpe","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as unoccupied and badly deteriorated, with a rotted roof, warped floors and sagging plaster ceilings; the house and five acres were for sale.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.467313-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/77000445.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209757","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/rutledge-house-77000445/"}