{"nrhp_refnum":"82002479","name":"Uptown Residential Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Broad and Main Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lumpkin","county":"Stewart County","state":"GA","lat":32.05415684700006,"lon":-84.79857185406772,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 34-acre residential historic district in Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia, west and northwest of the courthouse square, along Broad, Main, Cherry and Chestnut Streets plus Florence and Pine Streets. It holds wood-frame houses and two brick churches dating from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant in architecture, religion, local history, and community planning and development. It shows the four major styles found in Lumpkin, includes the town's Methodist and Baptist churches, housed local craftsmen, ministers and shopkeepers, and is the town's major planned residential neighborhood.","narrative":"This neighborhood of about 34 acres lies west and northwest of the courthouse square in Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia. It is the largest residential district in the town and has been part of Lumpkin's street grid since at least 1848. Most buildings are one-story wood-frame houses, with five two-story homes and two brick churches, Baptist and Methodist, both Classical Revival in character. Greek Revival, Victorian, Classical Revival and Bungalow houses stand side by side, and the Greek Revival houses are described as some of the finest in the county. The neighborhood housed many local craftsmen, store keepers and ministers. The two congregations, founded in the 1830s, moved into town around 1910 and built on Broad and Main Streets. The area began as farmland on the flattest part of the hilltop and was subdivided as the town grew, following a gridiron plan with one curve where Cherry Street meets Chestnut. Its houses show the progression of architectural styles across the town's development.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Victorian (Queen Anne and Eastlake), Classical Revival, and Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:39.968582-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002479.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002479/24aed7e179-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002479/24aed7e179-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uptown_Residential_Historic_District_Home.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:Uptown_Residential_Historic_District_Home.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206606","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown_Residential_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49573591"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/stewart-county/uptown-residential-historic-district-82002479/"}