{"nrhp_refnum":"82002488","name":"College Home/Smith Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"LaGrange College campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"LaGrange","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":33.03946721400007,"lon":-85.04253298399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red brick building, built in 1842 as a dormitory for a women's school, on the campus of LaGrange College in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia. Additions were made in 1887, and a porch was added around 1891.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant in architecture as an early example of Roman Doric Revival and one of the oldest brick buildings in the region. It is significant in education as one of the oldest private college buildings in Georgia and the only reminder that LaGrange was a nineteenth-century college town. It traces the school's growth from a women's academy to a co-educational college.","narrative":"College Home, later renamed Smith Hall, is a two-story red brick building on a hilltop at the center of the LaGrange College campus in Georgia. Built in 1842 as a dormitory for the LaGrange Female Academy, it has a four-column Doric portico, a nine-bay front, and long halls with many rooms opening off them. In 1887 a southern wing more than doubled its capacity, and a small Eastlake-style porch was added around 1891. The hall served as a dormitory until 1956 and now holds offices and student facilities. It is considered significant for its early classical revival design, with columns of brick said to be handmade on the site, and as one of the oldest private college buildings in Georgia. It also recalls the early education of women in the state, since the school was chartered in 1831 as the first for young women in Georgia. The building was renamed in 1911 for the wife of college president Rufus W. Smith.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Built by Joseph Montgomery in 1842; architect listed as unknown","architectural_style":"Roman Doric Revival (classical revival), with a Victorian Eastlake porch","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use; houses the bookstore, post office, infirmary, student center, dean's offices, clubrooms, a formal parlor, a guest suite and a faculty lounge. The first floor has been restored and modernized in part.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.606203-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002488.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002488/82d5ee05bb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002488/82d5ee05bb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_Home-Smith_Hall_(LaGrange_College).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:College_Home-Smith_Hall_(LaGrange_College).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209717","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134464350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/college-home-smith-hall-82002488/"}