{"nrhp_refnum":"82002448","name":"Hamilton Baptist Church and Pastorium","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"State Highway 116 and Clay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamilton","county":"Harris County","state":"GA","lat":32.75746197800004,"lon":-84.87635791199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A religious complex in Hamilton, the Harris County seat in western Georgia, made up of a wood-framed Baptist church built in 1890 and a one-story pastorium built in 1916 across Clay Street.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be a typical but well-preserved turn-of-the-century small-town religious complex, with a church that is a landmark of carpenter-style Victorian Gothic design and exceptional Eastlake woodwork. It also represents one of the oldest churches in Harris County, founded in 1829, and the congregation's late nineteenth century growth and its leadership in founding the Pine Mountain Baptist Association in 1889.","narrative":"Hamilton Baptist Church and Pastorium is a religious complex on about one and a half blocks of a residential neighborhood next to downtown Hamilton, the county seat of Harris County, Georgia. The large wood-framed church was built in 1890 and has weatherboard siding, a gable roof, twin front towers and a cross-shaped stained glass window. Its gables and gablets carry Eastlake-style woodwork. Across Clay Street stands the one-story pastorium of 1916, a late Victorian house with a hip roof, bay windows and a columned porch. The two buildings together show the traditional link between a congregation and its pastor. The property was listed for its architecture, as a well-preserved small-town example of Victorian Gothic and late Victorian design despite later additions, and for its religious history. The congregation dates to 1829, grew strongly in the late nineteenth century, and led the founding of the Pine Mountain Baptist Association in 1889.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific dates 1890, 1916)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Carpenter-style Victorian Gothic with Eastlake woodwork (church); late Victorian with Colonial or Neoclassical influences (pastorium)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in religious use; the church has a 1948 and 1968 annex and a modern steeple, and the pastorium has rear additions, but both retain historic integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.949194-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002448.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002448/72142950c5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002448/72142950c5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_Baptist_Church_and_Pastorium.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Hamilton_Baptist_Church_and_Pastorium.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208629","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134364607"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/harris-county/hamilton-baptist-church-and-pastorium-82002448/"}