{"nrhp_refnum":"80001229","name":"Summerville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Milledge Lane, Wrightsboro Rd., Highland and Heard Aves., Cumming and Henry Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Augusta","county":"Richmond County","state":"GA","lat":33.47859737700006,"lon":-82.01860007360139,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district of roughly eighty city blocks west of downtown Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, with houses built from the early 19th century to the early 20th century, plus a former arsenal now a college campus, commercial buildings and a resort hotel.","why_significant":"The excerpt provided covers only the physical description, not the formal statement of significance. It shows a cohesive suburban neighborhood with a wide range of house types and styles, boulevards, mature landscaping and consistent setbacks. The district also includes antebellum summer houses and early-twentieth-century winter homes along Milledge Road.","narrative":"Summerville is a suburban neighborhood of about eighty city blocks on a slight rise west of downtown Augusta, Georgia. Its houses date from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century and include Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Neo-Classical, Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Bungalow examples, along with early Sand Hills cottages. Development spread outward from the corner of Milledge Road and Walton Way, where antebellum summer houses and large early-twentieth-century winter homes stand. The campus of Augusta College is centered on the quadrangle of a former United States arsenal. Three boulevards with planted medians, tree-lined streets, informal yards and consistent setbacks give the area a park-like character. Intrusions are limited mainly to condominiums, offices, gas stations and newer campus buildings, concentrated along Wrightsboro Road and Central Avenue. The district was listed for its cohesive collection of historic residential architecture and landscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Herbert, Pray, and White, architects of Boston, Mass. (Tinker House only)","architectural_style":"Varied: Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Neo-Classical, Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow, and Sand Hills cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, partly altered, on its original site; mostly occupied, with a small number of intrusions such as multi-family developments, offices and gas stations.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.082948-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001229/334a6cb1a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001229/334a6cb1a8-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Thomson200","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:828_Milledge_Road,_Augusta,_GA_May_2017.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomson200</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:828_Milledge_Road,_Augusta,_GA_May_2017.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209413","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerville_(Augusta,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7637715"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/richmond-county/summerville-historic-district-80001229/"}