{"nrhp_refnum":"87001439","name":"Baber, Dr. Calvin M., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Penfield Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Greene County","state":"GA","lat":33.58451367400005,"lon":-83.17387761299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-12-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame Craftsman/Bungalow-style house on Penfield Road in the \"Railroad\" neighborhood of Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, built about 1924-1925 by physician Dr. Calvin M. Baber as his residence.","why_significant":"The house is a good local example of an early 20th-century Craftsman/Bungalow in Greensboro's black community, where few historic structures survive. It is also the only historic structure in the community associated with Greensboro's black physicians, and Dr. Baber was the town's second black doctor and a community leader.","narrative":"Built around 1924-1925 on Penfield Road in Greensboro, Georgia, this one-story frame Bungalow was the home of Dr. Calvin M. Baber, a Meharry Medical College graduate who arrived from Alabama in the early 1920s and became the town's second black physician. He practiced until his death in 1945 and also bought, sold and improved real estate, owning a downtown building that housed his office and other black businesses. The house sits in the \"Railroad\" neighborhood, one of two historically black areas of the town. It has weatherboard siding, a gabled metal roof, exposed rafter ends, board-and-batten gables and a full-width porch on square columns. Local accounts suggest Baber reused salvaged materials, which may explain the mix of window types. The house is considered a good local example of Craftsman design and the only surviving historic structure tied to Greensboro's black physicians, in a community where few historic black resources remain.","period_of_significance":"1924/1925-1937","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Craftsman/Bungalow","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Rental residential use; described as in fair condition, with additions on the side and rear.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.246224-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87001439.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001439/eee7be240a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001439/eee7be240a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baber_House_and_Museum.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:Baber_House_and_Museum.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206150","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Calvin_M._Baber_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55609967"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/greene-county/baber-dr-calvin-m-house-87001439/"}