{"nrhp_refnum":"85001677","name":"Jackson Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"112 Washington St. NE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gainesville","county":"Hall County","state":"GA","lat":34.29953958300007,"lon":-83.82633013299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brick office building at 112 Washington Street NE in downtown Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia, built in 1915 and designed by architect S.D. Trowbridge, with Levi Prater as contractor.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a good example of the early 20th-century 'tall buildings' found in small, prosperous Georgia cities. It was also a major early commercial venture and the largest, most modern office space in Gainesville. It was built for entrepreneur Felix Jackson and housed shops, offices and the Chamber of Commerce.","narrative":"Rising five stories in downtown Gainesville, Georgia, the Jackson Building was completed in 1915 as an office building with ground-floor stores. It is faced in buff-colored brick with cast-concrete trim, a classical entrance surround, and exaggerated keystones above the upper windows. Behind the modest facade is load-bearing brick and heavy timber construction, and an electric elevator marked it as a modern office building. Atlanta architect S.D. Trowbridge designed it, and Gainesville builder Levi Prater constructed it. Felix Jackson, an entrepreneur with earlier railroad and steamship interests, had it built. Local newspapers called it probably the largest office building between Atlanta and Charlotte. It was the tallest building in the city and housed small shops, professional offices, and the Chamber of Commerce. It was listed for its architecture and its role in the city's early twentieth-century commercial growth. A recent rehabilitation altered much of the interior, though the elevator and first-floor corridor survive.","period_of_significance":"1915","architect_builder":"S.D. Trowbridge, Architect; Levi Prater, Contractor","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and recently rehabilitated; the rehabilitation was certified by the National Park Service in October 1984. Many interior walls, doors and finishes were removed or rearranged, and rear windows were filled in.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.959891-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/85001677.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001677/292eb69161-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001677/292eb69161-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JACKSON_BUILDING,_GAINESVILLE,_HALL_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:JACKSON_BUILDING,_GAINESVILLE,_HALL_COUNTY,_GA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000873","name":"Gainesville Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/gainesville-commercial-historic-district-02000873/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208584","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Building_(Gainesville,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65060327"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/hall-county/jackson-building-85001677/"}