{"nrhp_refnum":"78001008","name":"McFarland-Render House","other_names":["Magnolias"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"612 Hines St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"LaGrange","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":33.038084330500055,"lon":-85.019757867787,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story, five-bay frame Greek Revival house known as Magnolias, at 612 Hines Street in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia. It was built between 1830 and 1833 for Joseph D. McFarland and designed by Collin Rodgers.","why_significant":"The house is significant as an early Georgia example of the Greek Revival style and as the work of Collin Rodgers, described as one of the foremost architect-craftsmen of the period in Georgia. It is also important in Troup County history as the town home of Joseph D. McFarland, one of the wealthiest plantation owners and largest slaveholders in the county.","narrative":"Magnolias is a one-and-one-half story Greek Revival house at 612 Hines Street in LaGrange, built between 1830 and 1833 for Joseph D. McFarland. Collin Rodgers, a Troup County architect-craftsman, designed it. The five-bay frame house has a central pedimented Ionic portico, and its Ionic capitals carry a stick-flower motif between the volutes, a detail typical of Rodgers. Inside, a four-room central hall plan is joined by a dog-leg staircase and attic bedrooms. The Render family, in the house from 1881, replaced the windows and mantels and added rear rooms and a porch. A barn, garage and former servants' quarters stand behind the house, and magnolias and pecan trees screen it from the road. McFarland owned seventy-two slaves when he died in 1847, which made him one of the county's largest slaveholders. The house is valued as an early Georgia example of Greek Revival design and as a work of Rodgers, known for precise classicism.","period_of_significance":"1830-1833","architect_builder":"Collin Rodgers","architectural_style":"Early Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the form lists its condition as altered, and the house has been lived in by the Render family since 1881.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.123398-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/78001008.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001008/e4038dd9ed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001008/e4038dd9ed-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Saverivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-05-07_The_Magnolias_Plantation_-_Newnan,_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Saverivers</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-05-07_The_Magnolias_Plantation_-_Newnan,_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209743","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFarland-Render_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85784554"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/mcfarland-render-house-78001008/"}