{"nrhp_refnum":"84000965","name":"Downtown Athens Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Downtown Athens Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Hancock Ave., Foundry, Mitchell, Broad, and Lumpkin sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.959316072000064,"lon":-83.37739863043535,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary amendment adding seven historic commercial buildings on the west side of North Lumpkin Street, between West Broad and West Dougherty Streets, to the Downtown Athens Historic District in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.","why_significant":"The added buildings are nearly identical in size, age, massing, materials and style to late nineteenth and early twentieth century brick commercial buildings already in the district. They help define the Clayton Street-Lumpkin Street intersection and mark the western edge of historic downtown. They also reflect the range of commercial activity in the district, including shops, offices, a printing shop, a laundry and a movie theater.","narrative":"Seven historic commercial properties on the west side of North Lumpkin Street in downtown Athens, Georgia, were added to the existing Downtown Athens Historic District through a boundary amendment. Five of the buildings are two-story, party-wall brick structures from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. They have mostly remodeled ground-floor storefronts, fairly intact upper brick facades and cornices, and modest details such as segmental and round arched windows, corbelled cornices and polychrome masonry. The seventh property is a mid-1930s Art Deco movie theater built around an older structure, with a smooth stucco facade and incised decoration. Six buildings cluster around the West Clayton and North Lumpkin intersection, and one stands at West Hancock Street. The buildings match those already in the district, including those directly across the street, and once housed retail stores, offices, a printing shop, a laundry and a theater. They form a logical western edge of historic downtown, beyond which no intact historic structures remain. Adding them also makes rehabilitation incentives available to their owners.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late nineteenth/early twentieth century brick commercial buildings; mid-1930s Art Deco movie theater","criteria":[],"status_note":"No non-contributing buildings or vacant lots are included among the added properties; storefronts are mostly remodeled, while upper brick facades are relatively intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.439467-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/84000965.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000965/e88110523a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000965/e88110523a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clarke_County_Courthouse,_Athens,_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clarke_County_Courthouse,_Athens,_GA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"06000737","name":"Downtown Athens Historic District (Additional Documentation, Boundary Increase II and Boundary Decrease)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/downtown-athens-historic-district-additional-documentation-boundary-increase-ii-06000737/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207458","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Athens_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5303355"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/downtown-athens-historic-district-boundary-increase-84000965/"}