{"nrhp_refnum":"82002407","name":"Harrell, Jane Donalson, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1975 off U.S. 84","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jakin","county":"Early County","state":"GA","lat":31.08379472100006,"lon":-84.99623402399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house in the Plantation Plain style with Greek Revival features, built about 1855 on its original four-acre lot southwest of Jakin in Early County, Georgia, near the Chattahoochee River.","why_significant":"The house is a good example of the Plantation Plain type with Greek Revival detailing and is one of the few remaining antebellum structures in Early County. It was the first house on its land lot after the 1820 opening of the area to white settlement. It also housed a plantation school for white and black children and a doctor's office and infirmary, and was originally held by a woman independently of her husband's assets.","narrative":"Built about 1855 southwest of Jakin, in Early County, Georgia, this two-story frame house follows the Plantation Plain form with Greek Revival touches, including a pedimented portico with four square columns, a trabeated front doorway and twelve-over-twelve windows. It sits on its original four-acre tract on flat riverbottom land still used for farming. Inside, hand-planed pine planks cover floors, ceilings and walls, and plaster or wallpaper was never applied. The house was the first built on its land lot after the 1820 land lottery opened the area to white settlement, and it became the center of a large cotton plantation. Jane Donalson Harrell received the land from her brother and kept it under her own name through a marriage contract, which was unusual in nineteenth-century Georgia. Later, a governess taught white and black children together in the house, and Dr. Augustus Shewmake ran a medical office and infirmary there. It remains one of the few antebellum buildings in the county.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1855","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Plantation Plain with Greek Revival features","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition; occupied as a private residence. Aluminum siding and late 1950s renovations are noted as not substantially affecting its integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.410592-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002407.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002407/d138e20e1e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002407/d138e20e1e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donalson_Harrelson_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Jennings</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donalson_Harrelson_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207905","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Donalson_Harrell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55614924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/early-county/harrell-jane-donalson-house-82002407/"}