{"nrhp_refnum":"89001100","name":"Jefferson Hall","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"GA 12","address_restricted":false,"city":"Union Point","county":"Greene County","state":"GA","lat":33.602288774000044,"lon":-83.03855317647054,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Transportation","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Jefferson Hall is a rural antebellum plantation district near Union Point in Greene County, Georgia, with a ca. 1830 Federal/Early Classical Revival main house, a tenant house and a barn, plus two modern outbuildings. The house is traditionally attributed to Augustine Greene.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine, well-preserved example of Federal and Early Classical Revival architecture in Georgia, with a brick-and-stucco Ionic portico. It also represents a cotton plantation that moved from slave labor to sharecropping. Finally, it is the only physical remnant of the railroad community of Jefferson Hall, which grew up when the Georgia Railroad arrived in 1838.","narrative":"Jefferson Hall is a former cotton plantation about one and a half miles east of Union Point in rural Greene County, Georgia. Its main house, built around 1830 and traditionally credited to Augustine Greene, is a two-story frame building with a central hall, a rear wing and a two-story front portico carried on four brick columns covered in stucco. Fanlighted and sidelighted entrances and Adamesque mantels reflect the Federal style, while the portico shows Early Classical Revival influence. Original pine floors, windows, doors and hand-hewn timber framing survive. A late nineteenth-century tenant house and an early twentieth-century barn recall the shift from slave labor to sharecropping. The property also marks the spot where the Georgia Railroad, the state's first, reached Greene's land in 1838. A village named Jefferson Hall, with stores, an inn and a post office, grew up nearby and later vanished. The house is its only surviving structure and remains in a rural setting.","period_of_significance":"1830-1939","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Federal; Early Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the tenant house is used for storage. Changes to the house have been minimal.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.76742-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/89001100.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001100/89febc02af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001100/89febc02af-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack Delano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Delano</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_Hall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208477","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Hall_(Union_Point,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6175479"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/greene-county/jefferson-hall-89001100/"}