{"nrhp_refnum":"90000561","name":"Durden, Albert Neal, House","other_names":["Durden-Brinson-Brewer House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Co. Rd. 360","address_restricted":false,"city":"Twin City","county":"Emanuel County","state":"GA","lat":32.57444375900005,"lon":-82.22377813848853,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmhouse complex on 162 rural acres about three miles west of Twin City, Emanuel County, Georgia, made up of an 1850s hall-parlor house and a c.1870 two-story plantation-plain house built by Henry Murray, with two historic outbuildings and a landscaped yard.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a very intact example of two vernacular house types, the hall-parlor and the plantation-plain, joined by a covered walkway. It highlights the builder Henry Murray's sawn-wood decoration, which reinterprets Italianate features. The landscaped yard with its historic picket fence is described as a rare surviving example of a once common rural landscape.","narrative":"Set on the old Swainsboro Road about three miles west of Twin City in Emanuel County, Georgia, this farmhouse sits on 162 acres of a once larger plantation. It combines two houses: a small hall-parlor house from the 1850s, now the kitchen and dining room, and a two-story plantation-plain house built about 1870 for Albert Neal and Eliza Brinson Durden. Local builder Henry Murray constructed the main house of heart pine sawn on the farm and decorated it with distinctive sawn-wood details, including fleur-de-lis porch frieze patterns, tree-trunk porch posts, ornate door and window hoods, and cut-out mantels. A wooden picket fence with an arched gateway encloses an informally planted yard. The Durdens also ran mills, a store, and a post office nearby, and the house still holds many of their belongings. It was listed for its architecture and landscape architecture, as an intact pair of house types, the work of a local builder, and a rare surviving fenced rural yard.","period_of_significance":"1850s, c.1870","architect_builder":"Murray, Henry","architectural_style":"Other: hall-parlor type; Other: plantation-plain type","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling and farm; lived in continuously by the descendants of Albert and Eliza Durden.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.049648-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90000561.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000561/c98b0b99f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000561/c98b0b99f2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Neal_Durden_House,_Emanuel_County,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Neal_Durden_House,_Emanuel_County,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207951","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Neal_Durden_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30622108"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/emanuel-county/durden-albert-neal-house-90000561/"}