{"nrhp_refnum":"80001109","name":"Crescent, The","other_names":["Colonel William S. West House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"904 N. Paterson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Valdosta","county":"Lowndes County","state":"GA","lat":30.839576652000062,"lon":-83.28375643099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large three-story Neoclassical house at 904 N. Patterson Street in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, built 1898-1900 as the home of Colonel William S. West and designed by the Atlanta firm Bleckley and Tyler.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an exceptionally fine, well-preserved turn-of-the-century Neoclassical house, one of the earliest, largest and most impressive in Georgia. It is also tied to Colonel William Stanley West, a lawyer, lumberman, legislator and supporter of public education. The house is further noted for its heart-pine construction and its association with architect Haralson Bleckley.","narrative":"Built between 1898 and 1900 on North Patterson Street in Valdosta, the Crescent is a three-story Neoclassical house of twenty to thirty rooms, designed by the Atlanta partnership of Bleckley and Tyler for Colonel William Stanley West. Its most striking feature is a two-story semicircular front portico with Ionic columns, and the interior is organized around a central stair hall with a third-floor ballroom. Nearly all structural and decorative lumber is knot-free heart pine chosen by West from his own sawmill stock. West was a lawyer, lumberman and state legislator who championed public education, introduced a uniform textbook bill, and donated land for the South Georgia Normal College. The house was divided into apartments in the 1930s, but the partitions were later removed with little damage. Now owned by a garden center, it is open to visitors and hosts weddings and receptions. It was listed for its architecture and its link to West.","period_of_significance":"1898-1900","architect_builder":"Bleckley and Tyler","architectural_style":"Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Generally in good condition; largely restored and maintained by its owner, a garden center, which opens it to visitors and uses it for social events. Only the third-floor ballroom and some bathrooms and closets remain to be rehabilitated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.204372-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001109.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001109/f6c3568d6c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001109/f6c3568d6c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valdosta_GA_Crescent_spano03.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valdosta_GA_Crescent_spano03.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208827","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crescent_(Valdosta,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16901515"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/lowndes-county/crescent-the-80001109/"}