{"nrhp_refnum":"80001215","name":"Ridgewood","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jenkins Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Upatoi","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.55628938150005,"lon":-84.74146286203325,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ridgewood is a two-story antebellum Greek Revival frame plantation house on a raised basement, built ca. 1830-34 on a wooded knoll near Upatoi, in the Columbus vicinity of Muscogee County, Georgia. About 17 acres of the original plantation remain.","why_significant":"The nomination cites it as a fine example of a large but modestly detailed early-nineteenth-century Greek Revival plantation house, with an unusual raised basement for the region. It is also tied to original owner James Hardwick Jones, a major local cotton planter, and has potential for historic archaeological study of plantation outbuildings.","narrative":"Ridgewood is a two-story, white weatherboarded plantation house built about 1830-34 on a wooded rise near Upatoi, Georgia. Its Greek Revival character shows in the five-bay front, paired-column portico, broad entablature, hipped roof with cupola, and a central stair hall with four rooms on each floor. The raised basement is unusual in a region where most country houses sat on piers. James Hardwick Jones, a South Carolina native who came from Hancock County, built it. By 1860 his holdings reached roughly 3,000 acres, with seventy-eight slaves producing ninety-one bales of cotton, making him one of the county's leading planters. Only about seventeen acres remain, and nearby subdivisions have changed the setting, yet the house survives largely intact. It is considered the only example of its kind in the area. A barn and other outbuildings remain, and the site may hold archaeological evidence of plantation work.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown (original owner/builder: James Hardwick Jones)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; described as altered, with minor changes made in 1940 and the owners planning restoration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:39.948032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001215.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209132","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134440309"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/ridgewood-80001215/"}