{"nrhp_refnum":"84001254","name":"East End Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Metcalf, Loomis, Colton, and Blackshear Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Thomasville","county":"Thomas County","state":"GA","lat":30.833313289000074,"lon":-83.96956381768717,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-block residential historic district of about two dozen modest wood-frame houses in Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, along the railroad tracks east of Paradise Park. It is the intact part of a late-19th-century planned subdivision laid out after 1885.","why_significant":"The district is cited for its intact collection of late Victorian and Craftsman/Bungalow houses built for modest-income families. It is Thomasville's earliest documented planned residential subdivision, laid out in a gridiron pattern. It also represents the achievements of middle- and lower-class residents such as clerks, tradespeople and skilled laborers.","narrative":"East End is a small residential neighborhood of about two dozen wood-frame houses on roughly ten to thirteen acres in Thomasville, Georgia, just east of Paradise Park. Its streets follow a gridiron pattern, with small, uniform lots planted with flowering trees, shrubs, oaks and pines. Young's Female College first developed the land after 1885. In 1894 it was sold to H.W. Hopkins, a local realtor and former mayor, who subdivided it and promoted its improvement. East End is regarded as the city's earliest documented planned residential subdivision. The houses are mostly late Victorian and Craftsman/Bungalow in style, with examples of Plantation Plain and Second Empire design, and most have front porches typical of south Georgia around 1900. Early residents included a carpenter and builder, a city policeman, a bookkeeper who later became sheriff, a railroad storeroom keeper and a house painter. The district was listed for its architecture, its community planning and the local history of its working and middle-class residents.","period_of_significance":"1885, 1894-1920s","architect_builder":"Several unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian and Craftsman/Bungalow, with examples of Plantation Plain and Second Empire","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; the district is occupied and used mainly as private residences.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.299463-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/84001254.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001254/6911a7bec6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001254/6911a7bec6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_on_Colton_Ave,_Thomasville,_GA,_US_(14).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73</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:House_on_Colton_Ave,_Thomasville,_GA,_US_(14).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209629","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_End_Historic_District_(Thomasville,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5328307"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/thomas-county/east-end-historic-district-84001254/"}