{"nrhp_refnum":"87002043","name":"Adairsville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Main St. bounded by King & Elm Sts., & city limits on S & W","address_restricted":false,"city":"Adairsville","county":"Bartow County","state":"GA","lat":34.36508848150004,"lon":-84.93408279821708,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the central core of Adairsville, a railroad town in Bartow County, Georgia, about 170 acres with 182 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures. It includes commercial, residential, religious and industrial buildings from the 1840s to 1941.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant in architecture, commerce, community planning and transportation. It is presented as a model mid-19th century planned railroad town, laid out by William Watts around a depot and Public Square. Its intact commercial buildings, churches, library, lodge and houses show a range of late 19th and early 20th century styles and local workmanship, including buildings attributed to John Schmitz.","narrative":"Adairsville's historic core is a railroad town in northwest Georgia, centered on a depot and Public Square. William Watts laid out the business lots in 1846 after selling land to the state for the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and the town was incorporated in 1854. The grid he established still organizes the community. The district covers about 170 acres and includes attached brick storefronts with pressed-metal fronts and cast-iron columns, warehouses and cotton gin sites, early gas stations, the Sans Souci Library of 1916, a Masonic Lodge of 1922, four churches and many wood-framed houses. Styles range from Italianate and Queen Anne to Neoclassical and Craftsman. Prussian-born architect-builder John Schmitz, who lived in town from 1901 to 1917, is credited with much of the building stock. The district was listed for its architecture, commerce, community planning and transportation history, reflecting a small Southern town shaped by the railroad and later by the Dixie Highway.","period_of_significance":"1840s-1941","architect_builder":"John Schmitz (1843-1920); Pavlovsky Brothers; Edwin Swain (Baptist Church, 1926); Tom Waldrop and Son (Methodist Church, 1887)","architectural_style":"Commercial, Italianate, Victorian eclectic, Queen Anne, Neoclassical and Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rated in good condition and partly altered, with the depot now used for other purposes and railroad tracks still in use. Non-historic properties are few, chiefly a modern school complex.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.332114-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87002043.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002043/b81c5f3bbd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002043/b81c5f3bbd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Amesmultimedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adairsville_Historic_Shoppes_5.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Amesmultimedia</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:Adairsville_Historic_Shoppes_5.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206935","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34806127"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bartow-county/adairsville-historic-district-87002043/"}