{"nrhp_refnum":"80001228","name":"Pinched Gut Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Gordon Hwy., E. Boundary, Reynolds and Gwinnett Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Augusta","county":"Richmond County","state":"GA","lat":33.467832248000036,"lon":-81.95431681498269,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district at the eastern end of downtown Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, covering about fifty-one city blocks, May Park and two cemeteries (Magnolia and Cedar Grove), with houses dating from the early nineteenth century to the 1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the largest and most intact historic residential area in Augusta, with every domestic style from Federal to Bungalow. It also argues significance in landscape architecture, community planning, military history, education and religion, citing the medianed Greene and Broad streets, the cemeteries, May Park, Houghton School and the Thankful Baptist Church.","narrative":"Pinched Gut, known locally as P.G., is the east end of downtown Augusta, Georgia. The district takes in about fifty-one city blocks laid out on a grid, May Park, and Magnolia and Cedar Grove cemeteries. Its houses range from large two-story townhouses to small shotgun cottages and span Federal, Greek Revival, Victorian, Neoclassical and Bungalow styles, built from the early 1800s through the 1930s. Greene and Broad streets have landscaped medians and tree canopies. May Park served as Augusta's parade ground for most of the nineteenth century. Houghton School grew from a free school established in 1851, and the Thankful Baptist Church traces to an African Baptist congregation founded in 1840. The 1916 fire destroyed many antebellum homes north of Greene Street, and less affluent residents rebuilt there afterward. The district was recognized as the largest and most intact historic residential area in the city.","period_of_significance":"19th- and early-20th centuries","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Victorian, Neoclassical, Bungalow, Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mainly residential and described as the most substantial intact residential neighborhood in downtown Augusta; thirteen intrusions are listed, mostly along the eastern boundary.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.435021-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001228.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001228/0f3d4bf7e9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001228/0f3d4bf7e9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinched_Gut,_near_131_Broad_Street,_photographer_facing_NW.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:Pinched_Gut,_near_131_Broad_Street,_photographer_facing_NW.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209395","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49542708"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/richmond-county/pinched-gut-historic-district-80001228/"}