{"nrhp_refnum":"79000707","name":"Dearing, Albin P., House","other_names":["Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"338 S. Milledge Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.95186108200005,"lon":-83.38755134099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red-brick Greek Revival house at 338 South Milledge Avenue in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, built about 1856-57 for Albin P. Dearing. It has been a sorority house since 1938.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a perfect example of the full Greek Revival temple form and the height of that style in Athens. It is also historically significant as the home of Albin Dearing, heir to one of the city's wealthiest families, whose fortune came from his father William's textile mill and railroad ventures. The house is presented as a monument to the antebellum South.","narrative":"Built around 1856-57 on South Milledge Avenue in Athens, Georgia, this two-story red-brick house is surrounded on three sides by a peristyle of twelve fluted Greek Doric columns. Interior ceilings in the downstairs rooms reach fourteen feet, and the doorways stand almost ten feet high. Albin Pasteur Dearing built it largely with an inheritance from his father, William Dearing, who made his fortune in Athens through an early textile mill and the push for the Georgia Railroad. The nomination describes the house as a full Greek Revival temple form and the high point of that style in Athens, valued above all for its monumental scale. The Dearing family lived there until 1938, when a sorority bought it. A dormitory wing was added at the rear, out of view from the street, and the original stair and one mantel remain. The house is reported to be in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":"c. 1856-57","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and occupied; in use as a sorority house with a rear dormitory wing added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.394287-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000707.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000707/5ed95f59ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000707/5ed95f59ba-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Fred O. Nichols, Photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dearing_House,_Athens_(Clarke_County,_Georgia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred O. Nichols, Photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dearing_House,_Athens_(Clarke_County,_Georgia).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75000580","name":"Dearing Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/dearing-street-historic-district-75000580/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207452","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134286736"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/dearing-albin-p-house-79000707/"}