{"nrhp_refnum":"80001039","name":"Cowdry, William D., Plantation","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Rome Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cave Spring","county":"Floyd County","state":"GA","lat":34.116764865500045,"lon":-85.33566097808455,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style brick plantation house on Rome Road in Cave Spring, Floyd County, Georgia, built around 1840 by William D. Cowdry, with a barn and several small agricultural outbuildings on about 52 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the finest Federal-style plantation houses in the Cave Spring multiple-resource area, with vernacular detailing and unusual early brickwork that remains largely unaltered. It is also cited for its rural landscape setting, its role as an early plantation, and its use as a boarding house for girls attending local academies. Cowdry was a trustee of Hearn Academy and third pastor of the Cave Spring Baptist Church.","narrative":"Built around 1840 by William D. Cowdry, this two-story Federal-style plantation house sits on a gentle slope on Rome Road in Cave Spring, Georgia. It is made of load-bearing handmade brick with timber framing, stone lintels and wood cornices. The three-bay front has central doorways on both floors with side lights and transom lights, and a two-tier porch added in 1920 wraps the front and side. Inside, a central stair hall divides four rooms on each floor, and the plan is essentially unaltered. Large trees, shrubbery and a lawn surround the house, which is bordered by cleared floodplain fields. The house was listed for its architecture, which reflects a vernacular treatment of a builder's-guide design, and for its brickwork, uncommon in early-19th-century Georgia. It also represents early plantation settlement after the land opened to white settlement in 1832. Cowdry took in girls attending local academies as boarders, served as a trustee of Hearn Academy and pastored the Cave Spring Baptist Church.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William D. Cowdry","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and essentially unaltered inside; current use is residence and agriculture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.112316-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001039.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001039/ead86d211c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001039/ead86d211c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"James R. Lockhart","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_D._Cowdry_Plantation,_Cave_Spring,_GA_NRHP.png\" rel=\"noopener\">James R. Lockhart</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:William_D._Cowdry_Plantation,_Cave_Spring,_GA_NRHP.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206014","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106999612"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/floyd-county/cowdry-william-d-plantation-80001039/"}