{"nrhp_refnum":"80001061","name":"Simmons, William S., Plantation","other_names":["Wesley House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Alabama St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cave Spring","county":"Floyd County","state":"GA","lat":34.092085786500036,"lon":-85.34438003250457,"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 Greek Revival-style brick plantation house built about 1840 for William S. Simmons on Alabama Street in Cave Spring, Floyd County, Georgia, with a smaller double-pen brick house behind it.","why_significant":"The form calls it the finest Greek Revival plantation house in the Cave Spring multiple-resource area, with a vernacular treatment of the style and relatively unaltered brick construction. The smaller rear house is a rare surviving residence built for a Cherokee Indian who stayed in the area during early white settlement. The property is also cited for its knoll setting among cleared fields and as a representative early plantation.","narrative":"Built around 1840 for William S. Simmons, this two-story brick plantation house on Alabama Street in Cave Spring, Georgia, is described as the finest Greek Revival-style plantation house in the local multiple-resource area. Its walls are handmade, load-bearing brick, with flat-arched brick and stone lintels, a low gable roof, temple-form side gables and a central stair hall plan. The interior keeps its original mantels and plaster moldings, and only the porches were changed, in the early twentieth century. The design reads as a vernacular version of the style, perhaps drawn from a builder's guide. Behind the main house stands a smaller one-story double-pen brick house, later used as a kitchen. It is a rare surviving home built for a Cherokee Indian who remained during early white settlement. The house sits on a knoll above cleared floodplain fields, a setting typical of early plantations in the region, and the land remains in agricultural use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and in use as a residence, with continuous agricultural use; porches were changed in the early 20th century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.376327-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001061.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206038","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Simmons_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018016"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/floyd-county/simmons-william-s-plantation-80001061/"}