{"nrhp_refnum":"85002085","name":"Hart County Jail","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Johnson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hartwell","county":"Hart County","state":"GA","lat":34.35486378600007,"lon":-82.93330796499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick county jail with a basement and a three-story front tower, on Johnson Street at Jackson Street in Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia. Built in 1893 as the county's fourth jail, it includes the sheriff's residence.","why_significant":"The jail is significant architecturally as a modest Romanesque Revival design that looks more like a house or civic building than a jail, and it uses fireproof construction typical of jails of its time. It also holds original jail works by the Pauly company of St. Louis. In politics and government, it is the fourth Hart County jail, sited away from the town center, and has served as the county jail since 1893.","narrative":"Built in 1893 on Johnson Street in Hartwell, this brick jail was the fourth to serve Hart County. Earlier jails had burned, proved unsuitable or sat near the growing business district, so county officials chose a site several blocks from the town center beside the city cemetery. The building has two stories over a basement, a three-story central tower, a hipped roof and round-arched brick details in a modest Romanesque Revival style. Its outward appearance resembles a house or school more than a jail. The first floor held the sheriff's residence, while the original cells, made by the Pauly company of St. Louis, were on an upper floor. Plans from the Manly Manufacturing Company of Dalton may have shaped the design. Additions were made between 1917 and 1924, in 1957 and at the rear, and the 1957 work moved inmates to the basement. The jail has remained in use as the county jail and was described as the oldest jail still operating in the Georgia Mountains area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Pauly Jail Bldg. & Mfg. Co. (builder); Manly Manufacturing Co. (possible original designer)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as the county jail at the time of the form; county officials were discussing its eventual replacement.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.28977-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/85002085.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002085/34d8b82351-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002085/34d8b82351-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hart_County_Jail.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hart_County_Jail.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206246","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134373598"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/hart-county/hart-county-jail-85002085/"}