{"nrhp_refnum":"80004459","name":"Highland Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1504 17th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.47841709100004,"lon":-84.96805360899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Highland Hall is an antebellum Greek Revival raised cottage at 1504 17th Street in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, built in 1857 with a two-story rear addition added around 1905.","why_significant":"It is a good example of a one-story, four-room central-hall Greek Revival raised cottage, one of perhaps only half a dozen in Columbus and unusual for its original out-of-town location. It is the last remaining vestige of an antebellum subdivision experiment begun by widow Elizabeth Howard. It is also tied to families with local and state social and economic connections.","narrative":"Highland Hall is a Greek Revival raised cottage at 1504 17th Street in Columbus, Georgia, built in 1857 on a lot that was once rural. It has four rooms divided by a central hall, a heavy timber frame covered in white weatherboard, a high brick basement, and a pedimented porch with square columns and a cast-iron balustrade. A two-story rear addition of about 1905 is scarcely visible from the street. The house is considered one of perhaps half a dozen of its type in Columbus and is unusual for its original location outside downtown. It is also the last remnant of a subdivision created by Elizabeth Howard, a young widow who divided a 100-acre tract into ten-acre lots beginning in 1839. The Ellis family, active in Columbus as auctioneers and newspaper editors, bought the lot in 1857 and built the house. Roswell Ellis later married Lizzie Rutherford, remembered for originating Confederate Memorial Day.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific dates 1857 and ca. 1905)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival raised cottage (rear addition in a simple vernacular Craftsman style)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and altered, on its original site; occupied as a private residence and art studio.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.429908-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80004459.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94000665","name":"Weracoba-St. Elmo Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/weracoba-st-elmo-historic-district-94000665/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209096","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Hall_(Columbus,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5758779"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/highland-hall-80004459/"}