{"nrhp_refnum":"85001787","name":"Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ardsley Pk., Chatham Crescent, Bull St., Baldwin Pk. and Ardmore","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.04710541600005,"lon":-81.09484485296457,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-08-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, made up of two adjacent planned subdivisions, Ardsley Park and Chatham Crescent, developed beginning in 1909-1910 on about 400 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its community planning and landscape architecture: Ardsley Park is a 20th-century variant of Oglethorpe's 1733 Savannah plan, and Chatham Crescent is described as Georgia's only known Beaux Arts-influenced City Beautiful plan. It also has a large, intact collection of early 20th-century Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman houses, and associations with Savannah's middle- and upper-class citizens and developers.","narrative":"Ardsley Park and Chatham Crescent are two adjoining planned neighborhoods in Savannah, laid out from 1909-1910 on swampy land beyond the edge of the city. Ardsley Park follows a gridiron with landscaped squares, recalling Oglethorpe's 1733 plan for Savannah. Chatham Crescent, designed by Henri Bignault, uses a grand mall, crescent-shaped avenues and small circular parks in a Beaux Arts-influenced City Beautiful layout. The Berckmans brothers of Fruitland Nursery in Augusta carried out the landscaping of the public spaces. Of almost 1,200 houses, most are wood-framed single-family homes built between 1910 and 1935, representing nearly every popular Revival style as well as many Bungalow/Craftsman examples. Savannah High School, built in 1937 as a Depression-era federal project, anchors Chatham Crescent. The district was recognized for its planning, landscape design, architecture and ties to Savannah's developers and civic leaders, including Harry H. Lattimore, William Lattimore and Harvey Granger.","period_of_significance":"1909-1935","architect_builder":"Multiple; architects named include Henrik Wallin, Hyman Witcover, Henry Urban, Olaf Otto, E. Lynn Drummond, Percy Sudgen, Morton Levy, George B. Clark and Cletus Bergen; Chatham Crescent designer Henri Bignault; landscaping by Berckmans brothers of Fruitland Nursery","architectural_style":"Neoclassical, Georgian and Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, Tudor Revival, English Cottage, Bungalow/Craftsman, with Spanish, Mediterranean and Prairie influences","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as extremely intact, in excellent to good condition and occupied; almost 1,200 houses, with just over 200 non-historic.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.797989-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/85001787.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001787/634cadee64-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001787/634cadee64-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Savannah_Ardsley-Chatham_HD01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</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:GA_Savannah_Ardsley-Chatham_HD01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207269","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardsley_Park%E2%80%93Chatham_Crescent_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34816393"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/ardsley-park-chatham-crescent-historic-district-85001787/"}