{"nrhp_refnum":"90000803","name":"McDaniel-Huie Place","other_names":["Word Place"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1238 SR 166 W.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bowdon","county":"Carroll County","state":"GA","lat":33.543344094000076,"lon":-85.27624832299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farmstead district just west of Bowdon, Carroll County, Georgia, with a one-and-one-half story frame Victorian Gothic Revival farmhouse (completed by 1890), historic outbuildings, a spring and a pond. The earliest extant buildings date from about 1852.","why_significant":"The district is significant in agriculture for its unusually complete set of farm outbuildings that show how a small farm worked. It is significant in architecture for the vernacular Victorian Gothic Revival farmhouse and the locally built heavy-timber outbuildings. It is significant in politics and government through J. B. McDaniel's service in the state legislature and D. B. Huie's role in financing the 1890 Farmer's Alliance Store in Bowdon.","narrative":"McDaniel-Huie Place is a farmstead on the western edge of Bowdon, Georgia, centered on a one-and-one-half story frame house built over the site of an earlier dog-trot cabin and completed by 1890. The house follows the traditional central-hall plan with Victorian Gothic Revival touches, including triple cross-gabled dormers, shallow pediments over openings and patterned brick chimneys. Around it stand numerous heavy-timber outbuildings dating from roughly 1852 to 1880, among them a smokehouse, mule barn, corn crib, blacksmith shop and carriage house, along with a spring. Together they show the many specialized buildings a mid-nineteenth-century farm needed. J. B. McDaniel, an early settler and prosperous farmer, served in the Georgia House and Senate during the Civil War years. Later owner D. B. Huie helped finance the Farmer's Alliance Store, a farmers' cooperative linked to the Populist movement. The property was listed for its agricultural, architectural and political associations.","period_of_significance":"1852-1940","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival (vernacular Victorian Gothic Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are both single dwelling and agricultural outbuildings; the farm is still worked in surrounding fields outside the nominated area.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.967112-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90000803.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000803/1a8033830e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000803/1a8033830e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McDaniel-Huie_Place_(Bowdon,_GA).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley</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:McDaniel-Huie_Place_(Bowdon,_GA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207235","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141715482"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/carroll-county/mcdaniel-huie-place-90000803/"}