{"nrhp_refnum":"86001021","name":"Richland Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Smith-Alston House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ponder, Harmony, Broad and Olemen, and Wali Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richland","county":"Stewart County","state":"GA","lat":32.093949787500065,"lon":-84.66005908453886,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 200 acres in Richland, Stewart County, Georgia, covering the town's intact residential and commercial areas, three churches, two cemeteries, a railroad depot, an old city hall and waterworks, and a school. Most buildings date from the 1890s to 1936, with two antebellum houses.","why_significant":"The district is significant for community planning, transportation, architecture, commerce and social history. Richland began at a crossroads and grew rapidly after railroads arrived in the 1880s and 1890s, and its gridiron plan was adjusted to fit existing roads and rail lines. Its buildings document late 19th- and early 20th-century building types in west central Georgia.","narrative":"Richland is a small southwest Georgia town that began at the crossing of the Americus-Lumpkin and Columbus-Albany roads, where Henry Audulf settled in 1827. Railroads reached it in 1885 and 1890, turning it into a junction and a shipping center for cotton and other crops. The historic district preserves that growth: one- and two-story brick commercial buildings from the 1890s to 1920s, including the 1890 Richland Hotel and Bank, a ca. 1900 mule barn, the 1913 depot, the 1905 city hall and the 1907 waterworks. Surrounding streets hold mostly wood-framed houses in Victorian Eclectic, Neoclassical and Craftsman styles, plus two antebellum houses, three churches, two cemeteries and a 1934 school. Housing for upper, middle and working-class black and white residents survives. The town's historic fabric was virtually complete by 1935, after the boll weevil, the Depression and trucking slowed growth.","period_of_significance":"1830s - 1936","architect_builder":"Multiple; Thomas W. Smith of Columbus, Georgia, designed the Methodist Church","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Victorian Eclectic, Neoclassical, Craftsman/Bungalow, late Victorian commercial","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as occupied; a one-room brick calaboose is in dilapidated condition. The form lists the district's condition as deteriorated and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.728079-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/86001021.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001021/8974e389a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001021/8974e389a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richland_Depot_(City_Hall)_(c._1890)_(Richland,_GA).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Richland_Depot_(City_Hall)_(c._1890)_(Richland,_GA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209503","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richland_Historic_District_(Richland,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7330638"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/stewart-county/richland-historic-district-86001021/"}