{"nrhp_refnum":"79000724","name":"Pitts, Thomas H., House and Dairy","other_names":["Casa Loma","Pitts Dairy Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3105 Cascade Rd., SW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.72143366300003,"lon":-84.48929594460338,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nearly complete early-twentieth-century private dairy farm at 3105 Cascade Road, S.W., in Atlanta, Georgia. It includes a bungalow main house known as \"Casa Loma,\" outbuildings and three barns, built about 1910-1919 for Thomas H. Pitts.","why_significant":"The estate is significant for its overall architectural and landscape character and for its role in private dairying in Georgia. It is an intact small dairy farm surviving within metropolitan Atlanta. It also reflects the business of Thomas H. Pitts, who ran a downtown soda fountain supplied by the dairy.","narrative":"Casa Loma and its surrounding dairy buildings form a rare surviving small dairy farm inside Atlanta, at 3105 Cascade Road, S.W. Thomas H. Pitts, who opened one of the city's first soda fountains around 1894, started the dairy about 1910 to supply that business. His family lived first in a cottage, then in the one-and-one-half-story yellow brick bungalow finished by 1919. Behind the house stand a wellhouse, greenhouse, servants' cottage, garage, a steel water tower and three barns. The buildings are largely unaltered, and traces of formal gardens planned with Mrs. Pitts remain. Dairying stopped long ago, and suburban subdivisions now cover the former fields. The estate was recognized because the complex as a whole, rather than any single building, preserves the look of an early-twentieth-century dairy and recalls the rural past of an area that has since been heavily developed.","period_of_significance":"c. 1910-1919","architect_builder":"Unknown (main house said to have been designed by a Mr. McGoukin)","architectural_style":"Bungalow with Georgian Revival influence, described as a rather eclectic design","criteria":[],"status_note":"Overall in relatively good condition; main house excellent, cottage poor. Dairying has ceased, the barns are no longer in use, and the landscaping is overgrown. The house is occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.567612-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000724.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208304","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/pitts-thomas-h-house-and-dairy-79000724/"}