{"nrhp_refnum":"80001051","name":"Rivers Farm","other_names":["Davis House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Rome St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cave Spring","county":"Floyd County","state":"GA","lat":34.11901410750008,"lon":-85.33840281957401,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rivers Farm (also called the Davis House) is a ca. 1850 plantation house with agricultural outbuildings on a 66-acre farm along Rome Street beside Little Cedar Creek in Cave Spring, Floyd County, Georgia. It was built for original owner Joseph Rivers.","why_significant":"The house is significant as an unusual vernacular interpretation of Greek Revival architecture, with boxy massing, a recessed porch and a rear shed. Its setting of cleared floodplain fields, large trees and lawn represents the historic rural landscape. It also represents the early to mid-19th century plantations and the settlement that followed the opening of the land to white settlement in 1832.","narrative":"Rivers Farm is a two-story timber-frame plantation house built around 1850 for Joseph Rivers on Rome Street in Cave Spring, Georgia. Its builder is unknown. The house has a rectangular plan, a low hip roof, interior rear-wall chimneys, weatherboard siding and a three-bay front with a recessed porch and a one-story colonnade of square piers. A shed-like extension projects from the rear, and several wood-frame farm outbuildings stand to the northwest. The house sits on level ground beside Little Cedar Creek, which is unusual because most early houses were placed on higher, drier ground. It is considered a vernacular version of Greek Revival design, and its boxy massing, recessed porch and rear shed make it unusual among local examples. The surrounding cleared floodplain fields, large hardwood trees and lawn preserve the look of the rural landscape. The farm was once much larger and reached its present 66 acres as early landholdings were divided. It has been farmed continuously and remains a residence in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, in use as a residence, and in continuous agricultural use since it was first developed as a farm.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.313759-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001051.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206028","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/floyd-county/rivers-farm-80001051/"}