{"nrhp_refnum":"80001075","name":"Gilbert, Jeremiah S., House","other_names":["Gilbert House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2238 Perkerson Rd., SW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.69334069850004,"lon":-84.41048421228956,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story farmhouse at 2238 Perkerson Road, S.W., in Southwest Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built about 1866 by Jeremiah S. Gilbert. The nominated 11.3 acres include the house and three outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is one of few Reconstruction-era structures in Southwest Atlanta to survive urban growth. Its first-floor walls of fieldstone and clay-and-sand mortar, poured in wooden forms, show how rural Georgians built with farm materials when supplies were scarce after the Civil War. It is also tied to Jeremiah Gilbert and his prominent Atlanta family.","narrative":"Built around 1866 on Perkerson Road in Southwest Atlanta, this two-story farmhouse was raised by Jeremiah S. Gilbert after he returned from Confederate service to find his home destroyed. Short of building supplies, he used materials from his own farm. The first-floor walls are fieldstone set in a mortar of clay and sand, built up in wooden forms about twelve inches at a time, while the upper story is weatherboard. Rough wooden lintels over the rear porch windows reflect the same resourcefulness. The family remodeled the interior in the 1930s, adding a dormer roof and dividing the upstairs into four rooms. The house is valued as one of the few Reconstruction-era structures in Southwest Atlanta to survive urban growth, and for its record of postwar rural building methods. Gilbert's descendants lived there until 1968, and the City of Atlanta bought the property in 1971. The house has been vacant since then, and part of the land is now Avery Park.","period_of_significance":"c. 1866","architect_builder":"Jeremiah S. Gilbert","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Atlanta since 1971 and vacant since then; windows are boarded up. Part of the land is used as Avery Park.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.483262-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001075.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001075/a5cc39953d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001075/a5cc39953d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"SouthwestGeorgia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renovation_Gilbert_House_Front-2nd.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">SouthwestGeorgia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renovation_Gilbert_House_Front-2nd.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208196","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_S._Gilbert_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18150762"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/gilbert-jeremiah-s-house-80001075/"}