{"nrhp_refnum":"87001990","name":"Reese Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Meigs, Finley, Broad, & Harris Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.95778433900006,"lon":-83.38467945027952,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Black","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic Black residential neighborhood of about 18 acres in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, in the area between Finley, Harris, Meigs and Broad Streets, about three blocks west of downtown. It holds late 19th- and early 20th-century houses, a church, a school and a few small commercial buildings.","why_significant":"The district is described as one of the most intact Black neighborhoods in Georgia and one of only two identified in Athens. It documents the residential patterns, community planning, education and vernacular architecture of Athens' Black community. It meets Criteria A and C.","narrative":"Reese Street Historic District is an 18-acre neighborhood west of downtown Athens, Georgia, developed from the 1860s as a home for the city's Black residents. Its small lots hold mostly one-story, wood-framed vernacular houses, including shotgun, saddlebag and bungalow types, along with Hill's First Baptist Church, the 1913 Athens High and Industrial School and a few brick commercial buildings. Doctors, dentists, educators, tradesmen and laborers all lived here, with larger homes on the higher, level sites and modest houses on the steeper ground. The hilly land had been overlooked by white settlement, a pattern the nomination links to Black neighborhoods across Georgia. The district was also an education center. Knox School, founded in 1868, was the city's first school for Black students, and the Athens High and Industrial School was Georgia's only Black public high school in 1916. It was listed for its Black history, community development, education and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1868-1930","architect_builder":"several","architectural_style":"Vernacular residential forms (saddlebag, shotgun, L-shaped cottage, pyramidal-roof square plan) with Victorian Eclectic, Queen Anne, Greek Revival, Neoclassical and Craftsman details","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied; present uses include private residence, commercial, educational and religious. Two lots that once held schools are vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.945574-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87001990.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001990/68ba04f268-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001990/68ba04f268-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LadyofShalott","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hill_First_Baptist_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LadyofShalott</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hill_First_Baptist_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207500","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49549134"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/reese-street-historic-district-87001990/"}