{"nrhp_refnum":"83003610","name":"Chick, Tom, House","other_names":["Chick-Gower-Braswell House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1102 E. Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Monroe","county":"Walton County","state":"GA","lat":33.791193144500056,"lon":-83.69459755745531,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame farmhouse at 1102 East Church Street in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia, built in 1907-1908 for farmer H. Tom Chick and constructed by W.D. Weldon.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a good example of early twentieth century architecture built for a middle-class family moving toward the city for its schools. It is typical in massing, details and style of early 1900s building. It is also a rare surviving example in Monroe of a farmhouse within the city, where few late nineteenth and early twentieth century farm-related homes remain.","narrative":"Built in 1907-1908 on East Church Street in Monroe, this two-story frame house was constructed for farmer Tom Chick, who bought about 65 acres so his growing family could use the town's schools. W.D. Weldon built it, using lumber from an earlier Chick farm. A one-story porch with simple square columns curves around the west side, and the plain exterior is relieved only by a bay window, a transom over the front door, simple door surrounds, one-over-one windows and brick chimneys. The Chicks lived here until 1919, when it was sold to O.S. Gower. Later, in the late 1920s, merchant and local politician W.H. Braswell bought it as his residence. The house was considered significant as a typical early twentieth century home for a middle-class family and as one of few remaining farmhouses within Monroe's city limits, a rare house type in an area that developed outward from the town center. At the time of the nomination it stood vacant.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W.D. Weldon","architectural_style":"Late Victorian frame residence with influences of vernacular architecture (reviewer's comment)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and in fair-to-poor condition with some deterioration; it remains in the Braswell estate.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.690526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/83003610.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206660","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Chick_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55635974"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/walton-county/chick-tom-house-83003610/"}