{"nrhp_refnum":"87000094","name":"Westover","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"151 Meriwether Rd. NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milledge","county":"Baldwin County","state":"GA","lat":33.13056830550005,"lon":-83.2953247566727,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-02-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Westover is a rural plantation district of about 40 acres, roughly 5 miles north of Milledgeville in Baldwin County, Georgia. It includes antebellum outbuildings, formal gardens and an unmarked slave cemetery. The plantation was established about 1822.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Westover has one of only about half a dozen documented surviving examples of formal antebellum landscaping in Georgia. It also keeps rare antebellum plantation outbuildings with unusual L-shaped hand-hewn corner posts. Its undisturbed grounds, cisterns, sites of lost outbuildings and slave cemetery are judged likely to yield archaeological information about plantation and slave life.","narrative":"Westover is a former cotton-belt plantation of about 40 acres north of Milledgeville, Georgia, established around 1822 by planter Benjamin S. Jordan. The main house burned in 1954 and a reproduction now sits on the original foundations, but the surrounding landscape and service buildings remain. Formal front gardens use geometric planting beds, boxwood hedges, low brick curbs, circular and straight paths, and an antebellum picket fence. Some cedar and magnolia trees have been core-dated to the 1820s. Behind the house stand a commissary, smokehouse, the two ends of a detached kitchen and two slave houses, several framed with unusual L-shaped, hand-hewn corner posts. A brick plantation office, cisterns, a spring house and an unmarked slave cemetery complete the complex. The property was listed for its rare surviving formal antebellum landscaping, its outbuildings, and its potential to reveal more about plantation and enslaved life through archaeology.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"unknown (plantation buildings constructed by Benjamin S. Jordan)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence. The original house burned in 1954 and was replaced on its foundations by a non-historic reproduction. Condition is described as good to fair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.537823-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87000094.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000094/f9527e2f8d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000094/f9527e2f8d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey_Branan_Sanders,_Photographer_March_1934_NORTH_VIEW_OF_FRONT_-_Westover,_Old_Eaton_Road,_Milledgeville,_Baldwin_County,_GA_HABS_GA,5-MILG.V,1-1.tif\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey_Branan_Sanders,_Photographer_March_1934_NORTH_VIEW_OF_FRONT_-_Westover,_Old_Eaton_Road,_Milledgeville,_Baldwin_County,_GA_HABS_GA,5-MILG.V,1-1.tif"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206879","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westover_(Milledgeville,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22026276"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/baldwin-county/westover-87000094/"}