{"nrhp_refnum":"80001149","name":"Central of Georgia Railroad Terminal","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1200 6th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.468747360000066,"lon":-84.98364354199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick and granite passenger terminal at 1200 6th Avenue in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, built in the 1890s for the Central of Georgia Railroad.","why_significant":"The terminal served passengers for over 70 years as the center of rail transportation in Columbus and was built only a few years after the railroad's 1881 terminal. It is described as the best example of Victorian Romanesque architecture in Columbus, with a granite porte cochere that is a rare feature on a public building. It also sits on a commons that was part of the original city plan.","narrative":"Built in the 1890s at 1200 6th Avenue in Columbus, Georgia, this passenger terminal was erected for the Central of Georgia Railroad west of the company's earlier 1881 station. It is a two-story building with a polychromatic brick and granite facade in the Victorian Romanesque style. A projecting gabled west pavilion holds a coarse-ashlar granite porte cochere with a semicircular arch entrance, and the stepped gable is trimmed with corbelled brick. Semicircular arched windows, stone bands at the sill line and a bold bracketed eave mark the wings, which are sheltered by cantilevered canopies. The terminal handled passengers for more than 70 years, until the last passenger train stopped in Columbus in 1971. It sits on land that was part of the original city plan's commons, later used for tracks and rail yards. It is regarded as the best Victorian Romanesque building in Columbus, and its granite porte cochere is a rare feature for a public building. The building is mostly vacant and needs repairs.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly vacant with a limited number of offices; in need of maintenance-type repairs. The last passenger train stopped in Columbus in 1971.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.424724-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001149.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001149/c76010fbe8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001149/c76010fbe8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ken Owens Photography","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greater_Columbus_Georgia_Chamber_of_Commerce.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Owens Photography</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:Greater_Columbus_Georgia_Chamber_of_Commerce.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206432","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Columbus,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111181832"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/central-of-georgia-railroad-terminal-80001149/"}