{"nrhp_refnum":"80001059","name":"Simmons House","other_names":["Godfrey Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Cedartown St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cave Spring","county":"Floyd County","state":"GA","lat":34.09929446500004,"lon":-85.33285956079479,"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":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Greek Revival farmhouse on Cedartown Street in Cave Spring, Floyd County, Georgia, built in the 1840s for the Simmons family on a 20-acre property.","why_significant":"The form calls it the finest Greek Revival farmhouse in the Cave Spring multiple-resource area and a very good example of the carpenter/builder tradition. Its hillside setting with large trees, lawns and fields represents the historic rural landscape. It also illustrates the smaller farm, as opposed to the larger plantation, and early white agricultural settlement in the area.","narrative":"Built in the 1840s for the Simmons family, this one-story wood-frame farmhouse sits on a gentle slope on Cedartown Street in Cave Spring, with hills to the east and floodplains to the west. It follows the Greek Revival style, with a gable roof, weatherboard siding, exterior end chimneys, and a central pedimented portico carried on four square columns. The entry has side and transom lights, the front windows are paired, and the interior has a single room on each side of a central hall plus rooms at the rear. The grounds include very large trees, a broad lawn and a curving dirt driveway with retaining walls. The property was recognized as the finest Greek Revival farmhouse in the Cave Spring area and as a good example of work by rural carpenter-builders. It also represents the smaller farms common to this part of Georgia, and its landscape reflects early agricultural settlement. It remains a residence today.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a residence in current use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.673295-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001059.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206036","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/floyd-county/simmons-house-80001059/"}