{"nrhp_refnum":"79000697","name":"Felton, Rebecca Latimer, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Cartersville off U.S. 411","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cartersville","county":"Bartow County","state":"GA","lat":34.20615238200003,"lon":-84.79827145199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story plantation plain style frame house with a rear kitchen ell, built about 1853 north of Cartersville in Bartow County, Georgia. The builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The house was the home of Rebecca Latimer Felton from 1853 to 1905, and she became the first woman sworn in as a U.S. senator in 1922. The nomination calls it the only known surviving structure tied to her adult life. It is also cited as a surviving antebellum plantation plain house in an area devastated by Federal troops during the Civil War.","narrative":"This one-and-a-half story frame house north of Cartersville, Georgia, dates to about 1853 and was home to Rebecca Latimer Felton until 1905. Five bays wide with a gable roof, it has a one-bay entrance porch with a plain pediment, corbeled exterior chimneys, and a kitchen ell added at the rear. Inside, the two front rooms have paneled wainscoting and simple mantels. Felton, with her husband William Harrell Felton, worked in Georgia politics, wrote and spoke widely, and campaigned for women's rights, temperance and penal reform. In 1922 she became the first woman sworn in as a United States senator. The nomination states that the house is the only known surviving structure linked to her adult life. It also describes the house as a surviving antebellum plantation plain home in an area heavily damaged during the Civil War. The Feltons left it largely unaltered, and at the time of nomination tenants lived there.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Plantation plain style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied by tenants at the time of nomination, who made cosmetic and functional alterations such as boarding up the fireplaces and covering walls in the left rear room. All outbuildings date from the 20th century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.957948-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000697.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206944","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bartow-county/felton-rebecca-latimer-house-79000697/"}