{"nrhp_refnum":"78000994","name":"Fields Place-Vickery House","other_names":["Vickery House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W. Main St. and Vickery Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dahlonega","county":"Lumpkin County","state":"GA","lat":34.53050908700004,"lon":-83.98802461299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame late Victorian house at West Main Street (College Avenue) and Vickery Drive in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia, begun around 1860 as the Old Fields Place and enlarged mostly between 1890 and 1908.","why_significant":"The house is significant locally for its association with two long-serving North Georgia College professors, B. Palmer Gaillard and Elias Benton Vickery, and with Wier Boyd, a lawyer, legislator and gold investor. Its architecture represents a modest Victorian house of the middle class, enlarged and updated as the owners' income and family grew.","narrative":"Begun around 1860 as the Old Fields Place, this two-story frame house in Dahlonega began as a three-room log-framed dwelling with weatherboard siding. Between 1895 and 1908 it was enlarged and remodeled into a Victorian country house, with a wider central hall, a second floor, a new porch with turned posts and scroll brackets, and two-over-two windows. Only two left-hand rooms with early Victorian mantels remain from the original house. The house is tied to Dahlonega and North Georgia College. Professor B. Palmer Gaillard, who taught for 50 years, lived here until 1895, when Professor Elias Benton Vickery bought it. Vickery taught Latin for 39 years and served as mayor. Earlier owner Wier Boyd was a lawyer, legislator, Confederate colonel and gold mine owner. The Vickery heirs gave the house to the Dahlonega Club in 1974 for restoration as a community center, library and museum. The nomination also presents the house as an example of middle-income Victorian design.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"John D. Fields (built c. 1860)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the Dahlonega Club and being restored as a community center, library and local history museum; exterior restoration complete and interior restoration well underway at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.100337-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/78000994.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000994/22033b117e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000994/22033b117e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"HollyJoe28","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Vickery_House_by_Holly_Bokash.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">HollyJoe28</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:The_Vickery_House_by_Holly_Bokash.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208861","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Place-Vickery_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24060779"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/lumpkin-county/fields-place-vickery-house-78000994/"}