{"nrhp_refnum":"83000205","name":"Crawford-Shirley House","other_names":["Franklin House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 Augusta Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lavonia","county":"Franklin County","state":"GA","lat":34.42828941200003,"lon":-83.10605259599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story frame Victorian-eclectic house at 100 Augusta Road in Lavonia, Franklin County, Georgia, built in 1907 for Mack Crawford on a 360-acre tract.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of the most elaborate late-Victorian designs in the Lavonia multiple resource area, with pressed metal ceilings and detailed gable woodwork. It is also tied to a large cotton and cattle farming operation that ran from the early 1900s to the mid-1940s. It was the home of Mack Crawford, an original owner of the Lavonia Cotton Mill.","narrative":"Built in 1907 on a 360-acre tract, this two-and-one-half story frame house at 100 Augusta Road in Lavonia reflects Victorian-eclectic design. It has four gables with dentil molding and diagonal siding, a wraparound one-story porch, a high hipped roof, and pressed metal ceilings in the central hall and one front room. Original windows, doors, mantels and room layouts remain largely intact. Mack Crawford, an original owner of the Lavonia Cotton Mill and later an early banker in Toccoa, built the house and lived there briefly. Joseph N. Shirley later farmed cotton and raised cattle on the land, shipping the cattle to Atlanta. That operation continued until the mid-1940s, when J. H. Beasley bought the property and gradually sold or gave away most of the acreage. The house was divided into apartments in the 1960s and has served as an antique shop since the 1970s. It is regarded as a landmark house in Lavonia, valued for its architecture and its farming and industrial associations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Victorian-eclectic","criteria":[],"status_note":"In use as an antique shop since the 1970s; described as in fair condition, with the back porches and the rear wing's central chimney deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.970834-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/83000205.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206066","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/franklin-county/crawford-shirley-house-83000205/"}