{"nrhp_refnum":"79000700","name":"Kilkenny","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Richmond Hill on Kilkenny Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond Hill","county":"Bryan County","state":"GA","lat":31.789853755000024,"lon":-81.20326403899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Kilkenny is a one-and-one-half-story frame plantation house, with a surviving kitchen outbuilding, east of Richmond Hill in Bryan County, Georgia. The house dates to about 1837, and Henry Ford renovated it in the 1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Kilkenny is significant as a colonial settlement site, a nineteenth-century plantation and part of Henry Ford's twentieth-century Richmond Hill estate. Architecturally, it is a rare Georgia example with eyebrow windows, a feature more common in Greek Revival houses of the Northeast and Midwest. It is also treated as a transitional piece between Federal and Plantation Plain styling. The pre-Civil War kitchen is one of few such outbuildings left on the Georgia coast.","narrative":"Kilkenny is a one-and-one-half-story frame house at the end of an oak avenue east of Richmond Hill, Georgia, built around 1837. It has a central-hall plan with four rooms over four, a hip-roofed porch on plain square columns, and small horizontal windows set between the eaves and porch roof. Local tradition credits the Rogers family with building it. The land traces to a 1747 colonial grant effort and later became a cotton plantation worked by more than 150 enslaved people by 1860. Henry Ford bought the property in 1931 and renovated it, adding interior details and small doors that reveal Civil War cannonball holes. Architecturally, it is unusual in Georgia for its eyebrow windows and for falling between Federal and Plantation Plain styles. A pre-Civil War kitchen with a massive double fireplace and bread oven also survives, making it a rare coastal outbuilding.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Transitional vernacular; neither Plantation Plain nor Sand Hills Cottage, with Greek Revival eyebrow windows","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the house sits at the end of an oak avenue within a trailer park/fish camp.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.275409-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000700.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000700/0301388f0e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000700/0301388f0e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilkenny,_Bryan_County,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</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:Kilkenny,_Bryan_County,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207139","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilkenny_(Richmond_Hill,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16998372"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bryan-county/kilkenny-79000700/"}