{"nrhp_refnum":"78000989","name":"Monticello High School","other_names":["Old Elementary School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"College St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Monticello","county":"Jasper County","state":"GA","lat":33.30718408700005,"lon":-83.68735222799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A T-shaped brick school building on College Street in Monticello, Jasper County, Georgia, completed in 1922 to designs by architect Henry Hunter Jordan. It was also later known as the Old Elementary School.","why_significant":"It was the first county-wide consolidated public school for Jasper County, built as part of Georgia's post-World War I push to improve education through state funding for consolidated high schools. It also represents the style of early-twentieth-century educational and municipal architecture. The community campaigned for a bond issue to pay for it.","narrative":"Built in 1922 on College Street in Monticello, this T-shaped brick school was the first county-wide consolidated school in Jasper County. It has two stories over a basement and an auditorium extension at the rear. The exterior uses multicolored face brick with decorative brick panels, a triple stone arch at the center of the east facade, and a pedimented parapet with a terra cotta cartouche. Henry Hunter Jordan, a Monticello native, designed it as his first school. Its construction followed Georgia's post-World War I education reforms, which offered state support to consolidated high schools. Local residents backed an $80,000 bond issue in 1921 with parades and a PTA book drive. The school served as the county's academic center until 1952, then as a city elementary school until 1974. After efforts to demolish it in 1976, a local historical foundation worked to preserve it as a community center, and part of it housed a program for older residents.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Henry Hunter Jordan (architect); West Point (Georgia) Iron Works (contractor)","architectural_style":"Typical early-twentieth-century public-school architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Closed as a school in 1974; part of the building was in use for a senior meals and recreation program, and a preservation foundation planned restoration and a multi-use community center. A 1977 kitchen fire was repaired in 1978.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.393056-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/78000989.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000989/69e2661364-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000989/69e2661364-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Danielle Darling","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monticello_High_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Danielle Darling</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monticello_High_School.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97000812","name":"Monticello Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/monticello-historic-district-97000812/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208718","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_High_School_(Monticello,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16895328"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/jasper-county/monticello-high-school-78000989/"}