{"nrhp_refnum":"83000197","name":"Oakdene Place","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Etowah River, Queen, and E. 6th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rome","county":"Floyd County","state":"GA","lat":34.24383460750005,"lon":-85.16893127676242,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-08-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 10 acres in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, on the south bank of the Etowah River. It is a curvilinear-street suburb developed from the 1880s into the 1920s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact early suburban neighborhood showing planned suburban development, late Victorian and Neoclassical architecture, naturalistic landscaping and local history. It pairs large upper-class houses with modest foundry workers' housing. It also records a social gathering at the Brower House where Woodrow Wilson met Ellen Louise Axson.","narrative":"Oakdene Place is a compact residential neighborhood in Rome, Georgia, laid out with curving streets on rolling land south of the Etowah River. Development began after a local businessman's failed attempt to build up the area in the late 1870s; an investment company subdivided it in 1890. The northern section holds large wood-frame Queen Anne and Neoclassical houses built for prominent families, with porches, brackets, stained glass and detailed interior woodwork, set among stone walls, iron fences and informal plantings. A stove foundry built in 1903 at the southern edge halted the planned upscale growth, and in the 1910s and 1920s modest mill housing, including shotgun houses and duplexes, filled the south end. The district was listed for what it shows about suburban planning, architecture, naturalistic landscaping and the close mix of industrial leaders and workers in Rome. Woodrow Wilson also met his future wife at the Brower House here in the early 1880s.","period_of_significance":"1880s - 1925","architect_builder":"Multiple","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Neoclassical, late Victorian, Bungalow/Craftsman; shotgun and square four-room mill housing","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Form lists the district as occupied, privately owned, in good to fair condition, with six non-historic infill houses and four intrusions as non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.639294-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/83000197.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000197/2ff71a7819-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000197/2ff71a7819-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"rossograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakdene_Place.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">rossograph</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:Oakdene_Place.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208003","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141758129"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/floyd-county/oakdene-place-83000197/"}