{"nrhp_refnum":"82002463","name":"Southeastern Holiness Institute","other_names":["Chason's Hospital","Donalsonville Hospital"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102 Hospital Circle","address_restricted":false,"city":"Donalsonville","county":"Seminole County","state":"GA","lat":31.050916347000054,"lon":-84.88062422999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Georgian Revival brick building at 102 Hospital Circle in Donalsonville, Seminole County, Georgia, built in 1914 as a Nazarene church school and converted to a hospital in 1918.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building has dual importance: first as the Southeastern Holiness Institute, a Church of the Nazarene school supported by T.J. and Leona Rich Shingler, and then as Chason's Hospital, the first major hospital serving extreme southwest Georgia and nearby areas. It is also significant as a large, provincially designed Georgian Revival building by Macon architect Peter E. Dennis, built with slow-burning factory construction methods.","narrative":"Built in 1914 on the northern edge of Donalsonville, Georgia, this long, narrow three-story brick building began as the Southeastern Holiness Institute, a school affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene. Local businessman T.J. Shingler and his wife Leona donated land and money for it. The school offered classes from kindergarten through college before merging with Trevecca College in Nashville in 1917. In 1918 Dr. Thomas Chason opened Chason's Hospital in the building. For about a quarter century it was the only major hospital serving extreme southwest Georgia, southeast Alabama and parts of north Florida, often giving charity care and training doctors and nurses. Designed by Macon architect Peter E. Dennis, the building shows Georgian Revival features such as a two-story Ionic portico, brick quoins and a modillioned cornice. Its heavy timber and masonry construction followed factory methods, so it could have served as a cotton mill. It remains a hospital, with a modern rear addition built in 1979.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1914, 1918)","architect_builder":"Peter E. Dennis","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a hospital (Donalsonville Hospital) with a 1979 one-story addition at the rear; the ground floor has been extensively remodeled while the upper floors remain relatively intact. Condition is described as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.266582-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002463.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209445","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Holiness_Institute","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29094099"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/seminole-county/southeastern-holiness-institute-82002463/"}