{"nrhp_refnum":"79000701","name":"Strathy Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Richmond Hill","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond Hill","county":"Bryan County","state":"GA","lat":31.904164450000053,"lon":-81.25132203699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-01-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Strathy Hall is a two-story frame plantation house on the Ogeechee River southeast of Richmond Hill, Bryan County, Georgia, dated c. 1840, with three outbuildings on a 3.637-acre nominated tract. The builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it was the seat of a large eighteenth and nineteenth century plantation and later part of Henry Ford's twentieth century Richmond Hill plantation. Architecturally it is an early example of the Plantation Plain style and of early twentieth century restoration techniques. Its ownership ran from a Scottish colonist through coastal Georgia farmers to a Northern industrialist.","narrative":"Strathy Hall is a two-story frame house on the Ogeechee River southeast of Richmond Hill, Georgia, dated to about 1840. Its plan is Plantation Plain: two rooms over two rooms with no central hall, weatherboard siding, a one-story hip-roofed porch and brick end chimneys. Three outbuildings, including a possible granary, share the grounds, and an avenue of oaks leads to the river. The land was granted in 1756 to Captain James MacKay, who named it after his brother's Scottish estate. In 1817 it passed to Colonel George W. McAllister, whose rice plantation relied on large enslaved labor. After the Civil War the estate was held by executors, then by the Clay family until 1925. Henry Ford then acquired it as one of the first parts of his Richmond Hill plantation and stripped away later additions to reveal the original core. The house was listed for its plantation history and as an example of early restoration work.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent to good condition and occupied as a private residence; the house was restored in the 1920s after Henry Ford removed later additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.916882-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000701.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000701/69585bab96-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000701/69585bab96-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kenneth Dixon","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strathy_Hall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth Dixon</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:Strathy_Hall.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207147","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strathy_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14686844"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bryan-county/strathy-hall-79000701/"}