{"nrhp_refnum":"86002059","name":"Temple, John Roland, House","other_names":["Temple Homestead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"129 Athens St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hartwell","county":"Hart County","state":"GA","lat":34.35004948000005,"lon":-82.94124211299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame Victorian house at 129 Athens Street in Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia, built in 1892 by John Roland Temple as his family residence.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the Temple family, who designed and built many of Hartwell's houses and passed the building trades to a son and seven grandchildren. It is also a good local example of Victorian Eclectic design, with Craftsman-style interior upgrades and a distinctive Eastlake-style porch.","narrative":"Built in 1892 at 129 Athens Street in Hartwell, this one-story frame house was designed and constructed by John Roland Temple, a Hart County native with no formal construction training, with help from his son Will. It sits on a one-acre lot with pecan trees, a privet hedge and a surviving smokehouse. The house has a gable roof, a rear ell and a central hall plan. Its most notable feature is a full-width Eastlake-style porch with turned posts, brackets, an openwork architrave and sawn balustrade infill. Inside are Doric columns, diagonal wainscoting and period mantels, reflecting later Craftsman influence. Temple ran a sawmill on the Savannah River that supplied lumber for many early Hartwell buildings. His son and seven grandchildren followed him into the building trades as contractors, architects, builders, a painter and an electrical contractor, and they shaped much of the town's Victorian Eclectic and Craftsman architecture. The house remains a residence in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Roland Temple","architectural_style":"Victorian Eclectic (Eastlake porch; interior upgraded in Craftsman style)","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and in use as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.453788-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/86002059.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002059/b49d86b323-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002059/b49d86b323-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Roland_Temple_House_-_Hartwell,_GA.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:John_Roland_Temple_House_-_Hartwell,_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206288","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134379771"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/hart-county/temple-john-roland-house-86002059/"}