{"nrhp_refnum":"86002046","name":"Morrison, Jackson, House","other_names":["Turner Property"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"439 Rome St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hartwell","county":"Hart County","state":"GA","lat":34.36239530800003,"lon":-82.92456528299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, frame, Plain-style house at 439 Rome Street in Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia, built about 1902 by Jackson Morrison as his residence. It sits on a 3.46-acre site with a pecan grove and pasture.","why_significant":"The house is tied to Jackson Morrison, a Black carpenter, farmer and real estate dealer whose land transactions helped develop Rome, Hartwell's Black neighborhood. Through his deals, Black residents obtained land from white owners. The modest house also illustrates early 20th century building traditions and lifestyles in Hartwell's Black community.","narrative":"Built around 1902, this one-story frame house on Rome Street in Hartwell, Georgia, was the home of Jackson Morrison, a Black carpenter and farmer who also handled real estate. It has a gable roof, a shed-roofed front porch on four square posts, a central hall with four rooms, and a rear ell. Morrison acquired ten lots in Rome, the historically Black section of Hartwell, between 1920 and 1928, and helped subdivide and sell land that white owners had held, including a 1940s subdivision called Lincoln Heights. He grew corn, cotton, wheat and vegetables on his four-acre home site and farmed other land in the county. The house is recognized for its link to his role in the growth of the Rome neighborhood and as a modest example of early twentieth-century housing in Hartwell's Black community. Later changes include altered windows, interior paneling, lowered ceilings and an enclosed rear porch.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Jackson Morrison","architectural_style":"Plain style","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and used as a seasonal (summer) residence; altered in 1970 and 1981, with a concrete block garage added behind the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.366074-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/86002046.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002046/8a6f0d5d73-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002046/8a6f0d5d73-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson_Morrison_House_-front_view.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Jennings</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:Jackson_Morrison_House_-front_view.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206272","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Morrison_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85770458"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/hart-county/morrison-jackson-house-86002046/"}