{"nrhp_refnum":"89001156","name":"East Vine Street Warehouse and Depot District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Vine St., Central of Georgia Railroad tracks, and Cherry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Statesboro","county":"Bulloch County","state":"GA","lat":32.448034207000035,"lon":-81.67475235599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of five brick warehouses built 1906-1908 and a 1923 frame railroad depot, located on the south side of East Vine Street beside the Central of Georgia Railroad tracks in Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia.","why_significant":"The district is significant for commerce and transportation because it preserves the buildings tied to the railroad and Sea Island cotton trade that drove Statesboro's early 20th-century prosperity. It is also significant for architecture, since it holds the only concentration of utilitarian warehouse design in Statesboro. The 1923 depot was described as the last railroad depot built in pre-World War II Georgia.","narrative":"Along East Vine Street in Statesboro, a small cluster of five brick warehouses and a frame railroad depot recalls the town's cotton and rail economy. The warehouses date from 1906 to 1908 and are plain, practical buildings with flat roofs, horizontal parapets, segmental-arched windows and wooden loading docks. Old rail sidings still run through the alleys between them. The depot, built in 1923 on the plan of an 1899 depot lost to fire in 1922, is a single-story weatherboard building with a hipped roof and bracketed eaves. It is described as the last railroad depot built in Georgia before World War II. Statesboro grew after the railroad arrived in 1889 and prospered with the Sea Island cotton market until the boll weevil and the Great Depression cut the volume of goods stored and shipped. The district was listed for its role in commerce and transportation and for its utilitarian early twentieth-century design. Contractor L. R. Blackburn is credited with some of the masonry.","period_of_significance":"1906-1923","architect_builder":"Blackburn, L. R.","architectural_style":"Commercial","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Warehouses and depot remain in commercial use, including a specialty store and a telephone company engineering division; the district is described as relatively intact, with facade changes mainly at the front.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.457418-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/89001156.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205878","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bulloch-county/east-vine-street-warehouse-and-depot-district-89001156/"}