{"nrhp_refnum":"90000432","name":"Newnan Commercial Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Georgia County Courthouses TR"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lee, Perry, Salbide, Lagrange, W. Spring, Brown, Madison, and Jefferson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newnan","county":"Coweta County","state":"GA","lat":33.37447946800006,"lon":-84.79990011005575,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Historic downtown commercial district of Newnan, the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia, laid out in 1828 around a central courthouse square. It covers about 25 acres and holds 92 contributing and 23 noncontributing resources, mostly attached brick buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district is significant for architecture, commerce, and community planning and development. It preserves the intact core of the 1828 \"Washington-type\" town plan, a representative range of small-town commercial buildings, and landmark civic and religious buildings. It served as the principal retail and service center for Coweta County.","narrative":"Newnan's downtown is a commercial district of about 25 acres built around a central courthouse square in the west-central Georgia town laid out in 1828. Its plan follows the \"Washington-type\" grid, with a square at the center and principal streets entering at the corners. Most buildings are one- and two-story attached brick structures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many with corbeled cornices, pressed metal, terra cotta and cast iron. Landmarks include the 1904 Classical Revival courthouse designed by J. W. Golucke, the 1903 Carnegie Library, said to be the first built in Georgia, and the 1939 Municipal Building by R. Kennon Perry. Three historic churches, two early service stations, a cotton warehouse and a historically black commercial row on East Broad Street are also included. The area served as the main retail and service center for a corn, cotton and textile economy, and it keeps much of its historic character.","period_of_significance":"1828-1939","architect_builder":"Architects J. W. Golucke (Coweta County Courthouse), R. Kennon Perry (Municipal Building), Butt and Morris (Carnegie Library), Rev. Charles M. Lipham (First United Methodist Church); builder R. D. Cole Company (Coweta County Courthouse)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Gothic Revival), Commercial Style, Classical Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Spanish Revival, Craftsman, Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Commercial, government and religious functions continue today. The former Carnegie Library is now used for county offices, and the 1868 Virginia Hotel is used for commercial offices.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.996141-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90000432.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000432/99fed4d1a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000432/99fed4d1a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ramsey Eden","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newnan_W._Court_Square_Shops.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramsey Eden</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:Newnan_W._Court_Square_Shops.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82002401","name":"Northwest Newnan Residential Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/northwest-newnan-residential-historic-district-82002401/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207671","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49531404"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/coweta-county/newnan-commercial-historic-district-90000432/"}