{"nrhp_refnum":"84001205","name":"Adams Cotton Gin Building","other_names":["Adams Gin House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6601 Hamilton Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbus","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.54061333800007,"lon":-84.95494237499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame cotton gin building at 6601 Hamilton Road in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, built in 1920 by George M. Adams, the original owner, on a lot of about two acres.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it significant in agriculture as a late example of the gin buildings found on cotton farms, with surviving equipment showing the shift from animal power to gasoline power. It is also significant in architecture as a plain, functional farm building made from local materials and labor. The Adams family built it after Fort Benning displaced their farm in neighboring Chattahoochee County.","narrative":"Built in 1920 on Hamilton Road in Columbus, Georgia, this two-story wood-frame building once processed cotton for the Adams family farm. George M. Adams built it after Fort Benning displaced the family from its farm in Chattahoochee County, reusing parts and equipment from the earlier gin. Its walls are unpainted vertical boards of rough-cut lumber under a corrugated metal roof. Inside are a Daniel Pratt gin patented in 1889 and a Lummus cotton press made in Columbus. Cotton was carried across the upper floor to the gin, cleaned and seeded, rolled, and pressed into bales of about 500 pounds, while seed dropped to the ground floor for storage. The gin ran until 1935, and the farm stopped producing in 1946. The building was recognized for its role in agriculture and as a plain, functional farm structure made from local materials and labor. It has since been adapted for commercial use, with new partitions, an entrance and a furniture-making shop on the lower floor.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Unknown other than original owner (built by George M. Adams)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition; altered by commercial adaptation, with the lower floor used for furniture making and the upper floor partitioned into display areas and an office.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.286779-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/84001205.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209065","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/adams-cotton-gin-building-84001205/"}