{"nrhp_refnum":"80001171","name":"Gann's Pharmacy","other_names":["Hall's Florist"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1611 2nd Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.47670402700004,"lon":-84.99054150099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Victorian Classical-Commercial building at 1611 2nd Avenue in Columbus, Georgia, built around 1900 by druggist Taylor Gann as a pharmacy. It is now used as a florist.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant as a turn-of-the-century drugstore that housed a locally owned pharmacy on the site for nearly half a century, with a family living upstairs in the early 1900s. It is described as the only remaining Victorian-Commercial building with its street-level entrance intact and the only remaining commercial building in the uptown area. It is also cited for archaeological potential.","narrative":"Built around 1900 at 1611 2nd Avenue in Columbus, this two-story brick commercial building replaced a one-story frame drugstore shown on 1889 and 1895 insurance maps. Druggist Taylor Gann, listed at the address in city directories as early as 1884, erected it, and Gann's Pharmacy operated there as late as 1931. Early in the century the building also held offices for local physicians, and from about 1902 to 1906 the second floor housed the family of William D. Spence, a chemist for the Eagle and Phenix Mills. The first floor has four bays divided by cast iron Tuscan columns, with display windows and a stairway entrance to the upper floor. Corbelled brick forms an entablature effect and a modillioned cornice, and arched window lintels project slightly. Its street-level entrance is described as the only intact example of its kind among remaining Victorian commercial buildings in the area. A faded painted advertisement for Gann's Pharmacy survives on the north wall. The building is now a florist.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Classical-Commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current use is a florist; integrity is described as intact and the first floor has not been altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.314437-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001171.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206474","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/ganns-pharmacy-80001171/"}