{"nrhp_refnum":"86000791","name":"Phillips-Sims House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"GA 54","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hogansville","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":33.15971530300004,"lon":-84.86371240799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century vernacular double-pen farmhouse with an attached kitchen/dining annex, built about 1833 on a hilltop just east of Interstate 85 near Hogansville, Troup County, Georgia.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good intact example of the vernacular farmhouse of Georgia's Piedmont frontier, with a double-pen plan, heavy timber frame and hand-planed boards. It is tied to the settlement of land opened in 1827 and to a plantation of over a thousand acres managed from the house for more than fifty years. Its hilltop siting near a creek is cited as typical of an ante-bellum plantation house, and trees mark the county line.","narrative":"Built about 1833 on a high knoll near Hogansville, this one-and-a-half-story weatherboarded farmhouse follows a vernacular double-pen plan, with two front doorways opening into two front rooms. It has a fieldstone foundation, granite end chimneys, a heavy timber frame with hand-hewn sills, and hand-planed heart-pine boards inside. A kitchen/dining annex with a massive granite walk-in fireplace is joined to the main house by a breezeway. William D. Phillips, a cotton planter, bought the land lot in 1833 after the area was opened to settlement by lottery in 1827, moving here from a nearby log house that is also listed. William G. Sims bought the property in 1855 and expanded the plantation to 1,130 acres. Today ten or so acres remain, including outbuildings, mature shade trees and an early mileage marker. The house was recognized for its architecture, its link to Georgia's final western settlement and its role as a plantation farmhouse.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular double-pen","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the form says it has been continually lived in since 1833, with changes limited mainly to 1960s alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.696487-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/86000791.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209747","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/phillips-sims-house-86000791/"}