{"nrhp_refnum":"82004665","name":"Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"321 W. Hill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Decatur","county":"DeKalb County","state":"GA","lat":33.76008507600005,"lon":-84.30229283599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hospital complex at 321 West Hill Street in the Oakhurst area of south Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, built 1918-1920 on 4.8 acres. It has five main pavilion-plan buildings and several auxiliary structures, and was designed by Neel Reid of Hentz, Reid and Adler.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent, nearly intact example of early-twentieth-century American hospital design, with a low pavilion plan and emphasis on fresh air and sunlight, in Georgian Revival style. It is also significant as a work of Neel Reid, for its therapeutic landscaped grounds, and as the first Scottish Rite or Shriners children's hospital in the country, from which later Shriners hospitals trace their origin.","narrative":"Built between 1918 and 1920 for the Scottish Rite Consistory of Atlanta, this hospital complex in the Oakhurst neighborhood of south Decatur treated crippled children. Neel Reid of the Atlanta firm Hentz, Reid and Adler designed it. Five main buildings form a low pavilion complex: a two-story Georgian Revival administration building of stuccoed brick with a Palladian doorway and tile roof, flanked by two one-story ward buildings with broad windows, sunrooms and clerestory monitors, plus a 1940s nurses' residence. The buildings face south to capture sunlight and breezes, and informal lawns, paths and patios provided space for exercise and convalescence. The nomination treats it as a well-preserved example of early hospital design, a notable work by Reid, and the first of the Scottish Rite or Shriners children's hospitals. The Consistory left the site in 1976, and a community organization has since sought to rehabilitate it for neighborhood medical, legal and community uses.","period_of_significance":"1918-1920","architect_builder":"Neel Reid (Hentz, Reid, and Adler)","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Abandoned by the Scottish Rite Consistory of Atlanta in 1976 when it built a new facility; listed as vacant and unoccupied, with a community group planning rehabilitation as a neighborhood center.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.078898-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82004665.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004665/a9a4078ab6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004665/a9a4078ab6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Holizz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:321_West_Hill_Street_02.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Holizz</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:321_West_Hill_Street_02.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207801","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Scottish_Rite_Hospital_building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7084946"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dekalb-county/scottish-rite-hospital-for-crippled-children-82004665/"}