{"nrhp_refnum":"79000711","name":"White Hall","other_names":["Whitehall House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Whitehall and Simonton Bridge Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Whitehall","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.89678192000002,"lon":-83.36374180799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"White Hall is a large Queen Anne-style brick house with Richardsonian Romanesque influences on landscaped grounds in Whitehall, near Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. It was completed by August 1892 for mill owner and banker John Richards White.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of Georgia's most magnificent late-Victorian Queen Anne/Eclectic buildings, with a carefully organized hierarchy of massing and fine materials and craftsmanship. It is also significant in local history as the home of John R. White, an important Athens industrialist and banker. Its English-style landscaped grounds, which complement the architecture, add significance in landscape architecture.","narrative":"Built by 1892 near the mill village of Whitehall outside Athens, Georgia, White Hall is a large red brick house combining Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque design. Its irregular massing, round-arched porch entrance, terra cotta panels and varied hardwood interiors are set within English-style lawns, shrubs and curving drives. It was built for John Richards White, who ran the Georgia Manufacturing Company and other mills and served as a bank president. He moved his father's earlier frame house to the rear of the property before building the new one. The architect is not definitively identified, though William Winstead Thomas is the likeliest candidate according to family accounts. The state acquired the property in the 1930s, and the University System of Georgia later used it for caretakers, offices and laboratories. After a few vacant years, the School of Forest Resources restored it in 1976-77, earning a Georgia Trust award in 1978. It is listed for its architecture, landscape and local history.","period_of_significance":"1892","architect_builder":"William Winstead Thomas","architectural_style":"Queen Anne/Eclectic, with Richardsonian Romanesque influence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored in 1976-77 by the University of Georgia School of Forest Resources. The main floor is used for receptions, the basement for meetings, and the upstairs rooms house a caretaker. The house was vacant for a few years after 1969.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.64326-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000711.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000711/cd7be314a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000711/cd7be314a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitehall,_c._1892,_photographer_facing_SE_(2).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:Whitehall,_c._1892,_photographer_facing_SE_(2).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207516","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134287567"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/white-hall-79000711/"}