{"nrhp_refnum":"83000217","name":"Queen House","other_names":["Harris Property"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hartwell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lavonia","county":"Franklin County","state":"GA","lat":34.43189841000003,"lon":-83.09014735499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story frame house on Hartwell Road in Lavonia, Franklin County, Georgia, built in 1908 by brick mason R. H. Queen as his own residence.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a representative example of Victorian-era house design in Lavonia, with a nearly square plan, high hipped roof with multiple gables, central hall and front and rear porches. It was also the home of a local brick mason whose family built other brick buildings in the area. Houses like it give Lavonia its character as a turn-of-the-century boom town.","narrative":"Built in 1908 on Hartwell Road in Lavonia, this one-and-one-half story frame house was the residence of R. H. Queen, a brick mason who had moved from North Carolina in the community's early years. Queen and relatives, including a brother and three sons, worked in the trade, building numerous structures in the Lavonia area and taking part in projects in Atlanta, including work on the Sears and Roebuck Building. The house follows a central hall plan with a hipped and gabled metal roof, a front porch on square wooden columns, one-over-one windows and a single diamond-shaped vent window in the front gable. Detailing is minimal, as in many Lavonia houses of the period. A bath was added in 1940, and part of the rear porch was later enclosed as a bedroom. The Queen family kept the house until the 1930s, and it has been a rental since 1955. It is valued as a typical Victorian-era Lavonia house and as the home of a local builder.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"R. H. Queen","architectural_style":"Victorian-era","criteria":[],"status_note":"In fair condition and used as a rental.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.144551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/83000217.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206098","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134305480"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/franklin-county/queen-house-83000217/"}