{"nrhp_refnum":"88001152","name":"Villa Lamar","other_names":["Hollywood","Newcastle","Ruben Garland House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"801 West Paces Ferry Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.85035864200006,"lon":-84.41291407099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-06-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Villa Lamar is a large two-story, stuccoed Italian Renaissance style house with a red tile roof at 801 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, Georgia. It was built in 1911-1912 for William Bailey Lamar and Ethel Toy Lamar.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the finest examples of Italian Renaissance style in Georgia, shown in its marble, mosaic tile, tile roof, Palladian entrance loggia and massing. It is also the only known Georgia work of Washington, D.C. architect George O. Totten, Jr. The original landscape plan by Meehan and Sons of Philadelphia may have landscape significance, but this was not assessed.","narrative":"Villa Lamar is a two-story, cream-colored stucco house with a red tile roof, built in 1911-1912 on a knoll along West Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta. Designed by Washington, D.C. architect George O. Totten, Jr. and built by Nicholas Ittner of Atlanta, it was commissioned by William Bailey Lamar, a former Florida attorney general and U.S. congressman, and his wife Ethel Toy Lamar. The house features a two-story Palladian entrance loggia, a two-story entrance hall with a balcony, large rooms planned for entertaining, terraces, pergolas, a solarium and a porte cochere. Its estate once covered about 200 acres, and a boxwood garden survives from the original landscape plan. The property was listed for its architecture. It is regarded as one of Georgia's finest Italian Renaissance buildings and the only known Georgia work of Totten, who was known for monumental houses and embassies in Washington. Later owners included the McDaniel and Marshall families.","period_of_significance":"1911-1912","architect_builder":"Architect: George O. Totten, Jr. of Washington, D.C.; Builder: Nicholas Ittner of Atlanta, GA.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals / Italian Renaissance","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; changes have been minimal and the house was undergoing restoration at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.534764-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/88001152.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206142","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134341477"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/villa-lamar-88001152/"}