{"nrhp_refnum":"83000223","name":"Vickery House","other_names":["Shirley House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Grogan St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lavonia","county":"Franklin County","state":"GA","lat":34.43634777600005,"lon":-83.10407859599997,"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 two-story frame house on Grogan Street in Lavonia, Franklin County, Georgia, built between 1900 and 1905 for local merchant C. W. Vickery on a lot from the original city survey.","why_significant":"The house is significant in terms of commerce because it was built and lived in by C. W. Vickery, a local businessman and founder of the Vickery Bank. It shows the kind of unpretentious home local businessmen often built early in their careers. His later, grander house has been destroyed.","narrative":"Built between 1900 and 1905 on Grogan Street in Lavonia, this two-story frame house was the home of C. W. Vickery, a local merchant who founded the Vickery Bank. It follows a central hall plan and has a one-story flat-roofed porch on square wooden piers that wraps around three sides. Two low, wide gables with bracketed eaves face the street, and the entrance has a rectangular transom and sidelights. Windows are six-over-six. Vickery's son and his wife later lived there, and the family kept the property until Joseph N. Shirley bought it shortly after World War II. By then it had been divided into apartments, and later changes included removing part of the central hall wall, enclosing rooms on the east porch and adding a rear outside stair. The house matters for its link to Lavonia's early banking and commerce. It represents the modest residences local businessmen built early in their careers, before Vickery's larger later home, now demolished.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Divided into three apartments before 1945 and used as a rental; described as in fair condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.14191-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/83000223.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206112","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickery_House_(Lavonia,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55637091"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/franklin-county/vickery-house-83000223/"}