{"nrhp_refnum":"80000968","name":"Andalusia","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Milledgeville on U.S. 441","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milledgeville","county":"Baldwin County","state":"GA","lat":33.12554856600008,"lon":-83.26855165099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-02-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 547-acre farm near Milledgeville in Baldwin County, Georgia, on U.S. Highway 441. It has a main house in the Plantation Plain style plus a second house, tenant houses, barns, sheds and a water tower. Construction dates are not given.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is nationally significant as the home of novelist and short-story writer Flannery O'Connor (1924-1964) during most of her productive career. She lived and wrote there from 1951 until her death in 1964. The farm's landscape and peafowl appear in her fiction, and it is cited in guides to literary landmarks.","narrative":"Andalusia is a 547-acre farm about four miles north of Milledgeville, Georgia. Its rolling land holds several small ponds and a group of farm buildings along a main drive. The main house is a two-over-two Plantation Plain dwelling with later additions, including a screened front porch, a rear shed addition and a two-room eastern extension. Nearby are a second Plantation Plain house, three tenant houses, barns, implement sheds, a milk-processing building, a water tower and a shed with cages for peafowl. Writer Flannery O'Connor moved here with her mother in 1951 and lived on the farm for thirteen years until her death in 1964. Illness largely kept her at home, where she wrote each morning and tended her peafowl. She revised Wise Blood and wrote The Violent Bear It Away and two story collections here. The farm's landscape shaped her fiction, and her story \"The Displaced Person\" was filmed there in 1976. Its significance rests on her place in American literature.","period_of_significance":"1951-1964","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain","criteria":[],"status_note":"The main house is in good condition and used as a private residence. The second house is unoccupied and deteriorated, and the three tenant houses are unoccupied. The land is no longer in agricultural production.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.368449-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80000968.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000968/e5b342dfae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000968/e5b342dfae-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Stephen Matthew Milligan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andalusia_(farmhouse);_Milledgeville,_Georgia;_January_29,_2011.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Matthew Milligan</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:Andalusia_(farmhouse);_Milledgeville,_Georgia;_January_29,_2011.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206841","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusia_(Milledgeville,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4753517"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/baldwin-county/andalusia-80000968/"}