{"nrhp_refnum":"84001302","name":"Harshaw-Stovall House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"GA 255","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sautee","county":"White County","state":"GA","lat":34.70117035450005,"lon":-83.66300696693989,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story weatherboarded farmhouse on a high knoll in the Sautee Valley, off Georgia Highway 255 in White County, Georgia. Built about 1837 by Moses Harshaw as a four-room-with-central-hall antebellum house.","why_significant":"The house is significant for architecture as a typical antebellum farmhouse that evolved into a Victorian Eclectic house, an evolution common among Georgia's small nineteenth-century houses. It is significant for landscape architecture because of its typical antebellum siting on a hilltop with valley views. It is also significant for local history, through its long ties to Sautee Valley people and to gold mining, timbering and agriculture.","narrative":"Set on a high knoll in the Sautee Valley, this White County farmhouse began as a four-room antebellum house with a central hall, built by early settler Moses Harshaw. Over the decades it was enlarged into a Victorian Eclectic cottage with a wrap-around porch, a rear kitchen ell, a two-story sleeping porch and steep gables. Inside, pegged mantels and paneled doors show local craftsmanship, and the heavy timber frame is joined with hand-carved pegs. Later owners included Lucius J. Lamar, James H. Nichols, E.P. West and, from 1893, farmer and businessman William I. Stovall, whose family enlarged the house several times. A store and post office building and a wellhouse also survive. The land was tied to gold mining, timbering and farming, and the hilltop site gives views across the valley. The house has since been converted to an inn, with the upstairs made into four bedrooms. The nomination rests on its architecture, siting and local history.","period_of_significance":"1837, late-19th/early-20th centuries","architect_builder":"Unknown (the narrative credits Moses Harshaw as builder)","architectural_style":"Victorian Eclectic cottage evolved from an antebellum four-room-with-central-hall farmhouse","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Recently rehabilitated and in use as a country inn (Stovall Inn); the form lists it as occupied with commercial (inn) use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.100789-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/84001302.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001302/aa5746f34f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001302/aa5746f34f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HARSHAW-STOVALL_HOUSE,_WHITE_COUNTY,_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:HARSHAW-STOVALL_HOUSE,_WHITE_COUNTY,_GA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86002742","name":"Sautee Valley Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/sautee-valley-historic-district-86002742/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209901","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134466925"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/white-county/harshaw-stovall-house-84001302/"}