{"nrhp_refnum":"82002437","name":"Market Building","other_names":["Agriculture Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clarkesville","county":"Habersham County","state":"GA","lat":34.61555769700004,"lon":-83.52788945799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick building on North Washington Street in Clarkesville, Georgia, just west of the town square. It was built in 1935-36 by the Works Progress Administration for Habersham County as a farmers' market.","why_significant":"It is one of two local buildings built by the W.P.A. during the Great Depression, showing early major federal involvement in the town's affairs. It served as a central market for local farm products and supported downtown commerce. Architecturally it is a good example of the utilitarian type of W.P.A. building found in small Georgia towns.","narrative":"Built in 1935-36 on North Washington Street in Clarkesville, this one-story brick building began as a farmers' market for Habersham County. The Works Progress Administration constructed it during the Great Depression, and it is one of two local buildings from that program. It has common-bond brick walls, stepped parapet ends with signboard areas, a pitched roof with exposed rafter ends, a wood monitor along the ridge, and a pedimented entry on the southwest side. The project was meant to help the local economy by providing construction jobs and a central place where area farmers could sell their products, and its location near the town square benefited nearby businesses. In the 1940s it was used to manufacture mattresses, and in the 1950s it was converted to government offices with interior partitions. It is valued as a local example of federal Depression-era work and as a utilitarian W.P.A. building type common in small Georgia towns.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W.P.A.","architectural_style":"Utilitarian W.P.A. building","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in fair condition and used for offices (SCS, ASCS, and the Habersham Planning Commission), with interior office partitions added in the 1950s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.523237-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002437.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206206","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Building_(Clarkesville,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85783944"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/habersham-county/market-building-82002437/"}