{"nrhp_refnum":"87000948","name":"Atlanta Stockade","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"760 Glenwood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.74190766700008,"lon":-84.36221686299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-06-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former city prison complex at 760 Glenwood Avenue in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, begun in 1896 and enlarged in 1905, 1910 and 1913-1916. It includes a castle-like prison, a blacksmith shop and stables, plus the shell of a meathouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues architectural significance for a purpose-built city prison combining Neoclassical and Gothic-influenced elements, and an early, extensive use of poured and cast concrete in Atlanta and Georgia. It is also significant in politics/government and penal history, reflecting how the city used prisoners and how its penal thinking changed, including a shift to segregation.","narrative":"Atlanta's former city stockade, on Glenwood Avenue beside Interstate 20, grew from a small 1896 concrete jail into a castle-like prison with a five-column portico and four-story towers. Much of the 1905 enlargement, designed by Public Works Commissioner Henry L. Collier, was built with prisoner labor from poured concrete and cast concrete blocks made on site. It is described as among the earliest concrete buildings in Atlanta. The complex also keeps a blacksmith shop, a stable by the firm Butt and Morris, and a roofless meathouse shell. Most inmates served short sentences for petty offenses and worked on street crews, a farm and a rock quarry. The prison began with men, women and children together, then moved toward racial segregation. It closed in 1924, and the Atlanta school system later used it for maintenance and warehousing. The listing recognizes both its penal history and its early structural use of concrete.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific dates c. 1897, 1905, 1907, 1916)","architect_builder":"Henry L. Collier, Commissioner of Public Works, for the 1905 additions; Butt and Morris designed the stable","architectural_style":"Neoclassical/Gothic (Gothic Revival towers and turrets with a Neoclassical portico)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied. The prison closed in 1924 and was later used for school system storage and maintenance, then barely used after 1962. It was sold in 1983 to owners seeking an adaptive reuse.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.173917-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87000948.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208078","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/atlanta-stockade-87000948/"}