{"nrhp_refnum":"83000245","name":"Young Harris College Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Young Harris College Campus, Appleby Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Young Harris","county":"Towns County","state":"GA","lat":34.93267150300005,"lon":-83.846588108132,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Education","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district at the center of the Young Harris College campus in Young Harris, Towns County, Georgia, covering about five acres. It includes Susan B. Harris Chapel (1892), Sharp Hall (1912) and historic landscape features along Appleby Drive.","why_significant":"The district is the historic core of a Methodist-founded college that played a major educational role in an isolated mountain area, and of the town that grew up around it. A 1890 trustee plan laid out the college and town with Harris Chapel as the focal point. The two brick buildings are good examples of vernacular college architecture, and the walkways, trees, stone walls and well house document early twentieth-century campus layout.","narrative":"At the heart of the Young Harris College campus in Towns County, Georgia, a five-acre district preserves the college's two oldest surviving buildings and a section of historic grounds along Appleby Drive. Susan B. Harris Chapel, built in 1892, has brick corbeling, a denticulated cornice, an arcaded entrance and a two-story bell tower. Sharp Hall, completed in 1912, is a more utilitarian two-story brick building. Rock walkways, a 1945 well house, stone entrance gates and a row of cedars complete the setting. The Methodist Church South founded the school in 1886 for mountain youth, and it was named for benefactor Judge Young L.G. Harris in 1888. It became a junior college by 1912. In 1890 the trustees planned the street layout for both college and town, placing the chapel at its center. The district is recognized for education, religion, community planning, architecture and landscape architecture.","period_of_significance":"1892-1940s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular turn-of-the-century college architecture","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The property is private, occupied and in educational use as part of Young Harris College.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.308895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/83000245.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000245/d8727b1662-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000245/d8727b1662-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"KudzuVine","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_B._Harris_Chapel,_Young_Harris_College,_Young_Harris_(Towns_County,_Georgia).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">KudzuVine</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_B._Harris_Chapel,_Young_Harris_College,_Young_Harris_(Towns_County,_Georgia).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209711","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Harris_College_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28451035"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/towns-county/young-harris-college-historic-district-83000245/"}