{"nrhp_refnum":"80001045","name":"Georgia School for the Deaf Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Padlock St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cave Spring","county":"Floyd County","state":"GA","lat":34.10755363450005,"lon":-85.33315830843117,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-acre historic campus of the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring, Floyd County, Georgia, east of Little Cedar Creek along Padlock Street. It includes four historic buildings, one non-historic dormitory, a landscaped yard and paved courtyards, with buildings dating from 1849 to 1907.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its range of institutional building types and styles, especially Fannin Hall, whose changes reflect over a century of Georgia institutional design. It also holds the 1894 industrial arts building, called the finest Richardsonian Romanesque example in the Cave Spring area, and the surviving west yard of the campus landscape. Its main significance is in the education of deaf students in Georgia, at a school founded in 1847.","narrative":"Georgia's school for deaf children has occupied this four-acre campus in Cave Spring since its founding in 1847. The historic district holds four older buildings, one postwar dormitory, a landscaped west lawn and connecting walks and courtyards. Fannin Hall, begun in 1849 as a simple gabled brick building, was extended in the 1850s, given Victorian Gothic ornament in the 1880s and remodeled in Colonial Revival style in the 1920s, which gives it its present mansard-roofed look. Two brick dormitories, one built in 1907, stand behind it. Across Padlock Street is an 1894 industrial arts building, cruciform in plan, with round arches and corbelled brick in a Romanesque Revival manner. The district was listed for its architecture, its surviving campus landscape and its role in deaf education. The school was the tenth state-supported school for the deaf in the United States, and its shoemaking and printing programs served the Cave Spring community.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque (industrial arts building); Colonial Revival and Victorian Gothic phases (Fannin Hall)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Fannin Hall was described as currently being renovated; the school has operated continuously at Cave Spring since 1847.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.216911-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001045.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001045/f6ef2284e0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001045/f6ef2284e0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cyntata2672","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgia_School_for_the_Deaf.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyntata2672</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:Georgia_School_for_the_Deaf.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206022","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49493538"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/floyd-county/georgia-school-for-the-deaf-historic-district-80001045/"}