{"nrhp_refnum":"90000947","name":"Conyers Residential Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NW of the central business district, roughly along Main St., Milstead Ave., and Railroad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Conyers","county":"Rockdale County","state":"GA","lat":33.66808516000003,"lon":-84.01894183801983,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 85 acres northwest of the central business district in Conyers, Rockdale County, Georgia, along Main Street, Milstead Avenue and Railroad Street. It contains 121 contributing resources (120 buildings and a waterworks structure) dating from about the 1840s to 1940.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant in architecture for its wide range of house types and styles, from Greek Revival to Bungalow, including works by architects Neel Reid and Willis Denny, and for extensive use of local granite. It is also significant in community planning and development because a railroad town grew in an irregular radiating pattern along the railroad and major roads rather than a typical gridiron plan.","narrative":"Northwest of downtown Conyers, this residential district of roughly 85 acres grew along three routes: Railroad Street beside the tracks, Main Street, once the Atlanta to Augusta highway, and Milstead Avenue, which linked the town to Long Shoals. Its 120 contributing buildings and a brick waterworks date from the 1840s to the 1930s. Vernacular Victorian houses predominate, alongside Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Bungalow and Tudor Revival examples. Atlanta architect Neel Reid designed the 1913 Langford House at 900 Main Street, and Willis Denny designed the 1902 Methodist church. Four churches, a warehouse, a store and a gas station add variety, and local granite appears in whole buildings, foundations, chimneys, walls and curbing. The district was listed for its architecture and for its pattern of development. Conyers grew irregularly around a preexisting highway pattern, which is unusual for a railroad town, where a regular grid was more typical. The period of significance ends at 1940.","period_of_significance":"C. 1840s-1940","architect_builder":"Neel Reid; Willis F. Denny","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Plantation Plain, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions include single dwellings, religious structures and businesses; 16 buildings are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.32726-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90000947.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000947/77b04261ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000947/77b04261ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Christian Bessey","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conyers_Residential_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Bessey</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:Conyers_Residential_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209425","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conyers_Residential_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5166782"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/rockdale-county/conyers-residential-historic-district-90000947/"}