{"nrhp_refnum":"80001169","name":"Fontaine Building","other_names":["The Woodruff-Brown Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13 W. 11th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.466569062000076,"lon":-84.99406449199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick commercial building at 13 West 11th Street in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, built about 1894-1895, probably by members of the Fontaine family. It is also known as the Woodruff-Brown Building.","why_significant":"The form argues the building is architecturally significant as the only one of its type in Columbus, using Sullivanesque techniques such as slender pilasters that emphasize its height. It combines segmented and round arches, terra cotta tiles, circular vents and rounded pilasters. It is also significant historically as a leading downtown business building that housed many commercial tenants.","narrative":"Built around 1894-1895 at 13 West 11th Street in Columbus, this three-story brick commercial building was probably put up by members of the Fontaine family. Its seven-bay facade features round and segmented arched openings with rusticated sandstone lintels, terra cotta decorative tiles, and slender pilasters that run up all three stories and curve around circular metal vents. The nomination describes it as the only one of its type in Columbus and notes its Sullivanesque treatment, which accentuates the building's height. An 1895 map shows wholesale boots and shoes on the first floor, a dentist and a club on the second, and rooms on the third. Later tenants included a cola syrup maker, the Harmony Club, a second-hand furniture dealer, the Elks, cotton brokers, and a real estate and insurance firm that gave the building the name Woodruff-Brown. It was considered a leading downtown business building when constructed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Eclectic - Commercial, with Sullivanesque techniques","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current use is listed as commercial; integrity is described as intact, though the upper-floor windows are boarded up from the inside and the parapet appears altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.611712-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001169.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206470","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134401722"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/fontaine-building-80001169/"}