{"nrhp_refnum":"87001332","name":"Miller Brothers Farm","other_names":["Kensington","Big House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"GA 912","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kensington","county":"Walker County","state":"GA","lat":34.772532762000054,"lon":-85.37576449881789,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-08-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A massive frame house on a small hilltop at Kensington, Walker County, Georgia, built in 1890 as the Kensington Hotel and remodeled in 1915-1917 into a private residence at the center of a dairy farm. It is the only surviving building on the 40-acre nominated property.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be one of the most dramatic renovations in Georgia architecture, converting a Queen Anne resort hotel into a Classical Revival style plantation-type house. It is also the sole remnant of the planned resort town of Kensington, which stalled after a 1892 fire and the 1893 depression.","narrative":"Kensington, also called the Miller Brothers Farm, is a large frame house on a hilltop in Walker County, Georgia. It began in 1890 as the Kensington Hotel, the centerpiece of a resort town planned by Philadelphia investors. The town never prospered, as a fire in 1892 and the depression of 1893 halted its growth. In 1915 Gustavus Hindman Miller and Frank L. Miller acquired the hotel and converted it into a home for their families. Contractors Whittice and Pressley carried out a drastic remodeling that removed the upper one-and-a-half stories, the turrets, and the long front verandah. Two-story Tuscan-columned verandahs were added on the east and south sides, giving the building a Classical Revival look, and original door and window frames were reused. The house sat within a 1,600-acre dairy farm. It is the only surviving piece of the town of Kensington, and it is considered one of Georgia's largest examples of Classical Revival domestic architecture, though not in pure form.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899; specific dates 1890, 1915-1917","architect_builder":"Whittice and Pressley (Contractors); architect not known","architectural_style":"Classical Revival (remodeled from a Queen Anne style hotel)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the form lists the property as occupied, with virtually no major changes since the 1915-1917 remodeling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.51999-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87001332.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94001140","name":"McLemore Cove Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/mclemore-cove-historic-district-94001140/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209827","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Brothers_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6859092"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/walker-county/miller-brothers-farm-87001332/"}