{"nrhp_refnum":"80001014","name":"Davis, John A., House","other_names":["Albany Little Theatre"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"514 Pine Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Dougherty County","state":"GA","lat":31.578226960000052,"lon":-84.16043723299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate Villa built about 1853 at 514 Pine Avenue in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, with a Neoclassical front porch added in the early 1900s and a theater attached to the rear in the mid- to late-1960s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an early and relatively rare example of the Italianate Villa style in Georgia, and an uncommon example of antebellum brick residential construction. Its Neoclassical porch records changing architectural tastes across generations. It is also significant locally as the home of John A. Davis, a prominent Albany banker and civic leader, and the site of an 1884 reception for Jefferson Davis.","narrative":"Built around 1853 on a small city lot near downtown Albany, this square, cubical brick house is an Italianate Villa with a hip roof, tall narrow windows, bracketed eaves and a projecting central tower. A Neoclassical portico with Corinthian columns was added in the first decade of the 1900s by Joseph Davis, son of the banker John A. Davis. Inside, a central stair hall is divided by a screenwall with an Ionic column. A plain brick theater was attached to the rear in the mid- to late-1960s without structural changes to the house. The property matters for its architecture, since Italianate residences and brick houses of the antebellum period are uncommon in Georgia. It also matters locally: Davis, who founded the First National Bank of Albany in 1886, lived here, and the house received Jefferson Davis in 1884. Later it served as a Masonic meeting hall before becoming home to the Albany Little Theatre in 1965.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate Villa with Neoclassical front porch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as the Albany Little Theatre; the house was restored and the theater added in the mid- to late-1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.121535-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001014.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001014/32acf44224-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001014/32acf44224-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_A._Davis_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:John_A._Davis_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207856","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Davis_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6217622"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dougherty-county/davis-john-a-house-80001014/"}