{"nrhp_refnum":"80001000","name":"Summers Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Summers St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kennesaw","county":"Cobb County","state":"GA","lat":34.01976083300008,"lon":-84.61368204754174,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-acre historic district of late-nineteenth-century town residences and one farmhouse along Summers Street between South Main Street and West Road in Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia.","why_significant":"The district is an intact segment of a nineteenth-century wagon-road development along the old Cassville Road. It contains some of the most elaborately detailed late-nineteenth-century houses in Kennesaw and a fine Victorian farmhouse. It is also tied to local figures, including the sons of merchant John W. \"Bacon\" Hill and the family of pioneer Major Hiram Butler.","narrative":"Summers Street in Kennesaw, Georgia, preserves a short row of late-nineteenth-century houses on about six acres between South Main Street and West Road. Most stand on the southwest side of the street and share a similar setback and scale on small lots. They are modest one- and two-story frame buildings, with Queen Anne, Eastlake and Craftsman detailing. A farmhouse on a knoll at the southern end marks the historic edge of town and has an updated Craftsman-style porch. The street follows part of the old Cassville Road, one of the town's nineteenth-century wagon roads, and the district is described as a smaller counterpart to the Cherokee Street area. Some of the houses are among the most elaborately detailed in Kennesaw. Two were built by sons of Civil War-era merchant John W. \"Bacon\" Hill, and another remains in the family of Major Hiram Butler, an early Big Shanty settler. Two later buildings, a repair shop and a contemporary house, are counted as intrusions.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Modest one- and two-story frame houses with Queen Anne, Eastlake and Craftsman detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Two intrusions are noted: a small brick television-repair shop and a small contemporary frame house.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.770477-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001000.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001000/32b99de072-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001000/32b99de072-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Nilesrob","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SummersStreet.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nilesrob</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SummersStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205946","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49567281"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/cobb-county/summers-street-historic-district-80001000/"}