{"nrhp_refnum":"79000746","name":"Wilson, Woodrow, Boyhood Home","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"419 7th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Augusta","county":"Richmond County","state":"GA","lat":33.47169536300004,"lon":-81.96518896799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-28","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2008-10-06","areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red-brick manse at 419 Seventh Street in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, dated to about 1840, with a brick kitchen and carriage house on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant as the boyhood home of Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-seventh U.S. president, who lived there from 1858 to 1870 while his father was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church across the street. It also describes the house as a mid-nineteenth-century classical revival structure with fine red-brick craftsmanship that adds to its urban setting.","narrative":"This two-story red-brick house at 419 Seventh Street in Augusta, Georgia, dates to about 1840 and served as the Presbyterian manse where Woodrow Wilson spent his boyhood. Wilson arrived in 1858 at age two, when his father, the Reverend Joseph R. Wilson, became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church diagonally across the street. The family stayed until 1870. The house has a one-story porch on slender Tuscan columns, white stone window lintels, six-over-six windows, and a central-hall plan. Its broad proportions and low roof recall earlier Jeffersonian classical styles. A two-story brick kitchen, now joined to the house by a frame room, and a brick carriage house remain on the lot. A 1927 biographer described the hall, parlor, study and the boy's upstairs room, and these spaces can still be seen. Wilson himself recalled standing at the gateway here as a child when Lincoln's election was announced. The house is valued for that association and for its well-crafted brickwork.","period_of_significance":"1858-1870","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical revival (mid-nineteenth century), with Jeffersonian classical influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rated good condition and listed as a private residence; at the time of nomination it had recently been sold and the new owners were restoring it, planning to open it as a historic site.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.167467-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000746.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000746/7b934dafef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000746/7b934dafef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Annalisa.frazier","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodrow_Wilson_Boyhood_Home_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Annalisa.frazier</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:Woodrow_Wilson_Boyhood_Home_2.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04000515","name":"Augusta Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/augusta-downtown-historic-district-04000515/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209419","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_Boyhood_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8033191"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/richmond-county/wilson-woodrow-boyhood-home-79000746/"}