{"nrhp_refnum":"84003873","name":"Chestnut Grove School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"610 Epps Bridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.933194653000044,"lon":-83.43830085899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room frame schoolhouse built in 1896 at the southwest corner of Epps Bridge Road and Timothy Bridge Road, west of Athens in Clarke County, Georgia.","why_significant":"It is one of the few remaining single-room schoolhouses from the late nineteenth century in Clarke County and Georgia. It is tied to the education of black children and to the life of the surrounding black community, which supplied the land, labor and many materials. It also served as a meeting place for church groups and community gatherings.","narrative":"Chestnut Grove School is a one-room schoolhouse built in 1896 on the western edge of Athens, Georgia. It is a rectangular wood balloon-frame building with weatherboard siding, a hipped roof, low cornerstone piers and three shuttered double-hung windows on each side. A single door on the east side is the only entrance, and a brick chimney on the south wall vented the pot-bellied stove that heated the room. The building never had plumbing or electricity. It is considered one of the few surviving single-room schoolhouses of its period in Clarke County and the state. The local black community provided the land, labor and many materials, and the school taught basic reading, writing, arithmetic and geography to children of all ages. It also hosted church congregations, the Baptist Aid Lodge and community gatherings such as Thanksgiving and Christmas events and summer picnics. Former students have led its restoration, which has included in-kind replacement of the roof and portions of the cornice and siding.","period_of_significance":"1896","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant, with restoration work in progress; the roof and parts of the cornice and weatherboarding have been replaced in kind, and the floor and ceiling were removed for repair.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.639917-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/84003873.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003873/814b459fa1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003873/814b459fa1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chestnut_Grove_School,_photographer_facing_NW.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:Chestnut_Grove_School,_photographer_facing_NW.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207434","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134287365"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/chestnut-grove-school-84003873/"}