{"nrhp_refnum":"90002101","name":"Howell, Mrs. George Arthur, Jr., House","other_names":["Howell--Kilpatrick House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 W. Paces Ferry Rd. NW.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.84483270100003,"lon":-84.39881821099993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, fifteen-room stuccoed single-family house with a basement at 400 West Paces Ferry Road N.W. in northwest Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built in 1932 and designed by Cooper and Cooper.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine example of 1930s Neo-Classical Revival architecture, with a symmetrical facade, a four-columned Greek Revival portico and a symmetrical first-floor plan. It is also significant as a work of the Atlanta firm Cooper and Cooper. It is one of about two dozen individually eligible houses in the West Paces Ferry Road area.","narrative":"Built in 1932 at 400 West Paces Ferry Road in northwest Atlanta, this fifteen-room stuccoed house was commissioned by Katherine Mitchell Howell, a recent widow. Cooper and Cooper, a firm of two Atlanta-born brothers, designed it, and Gilbert Beers built it under a $40,000 contract. Joseph W. Cooper, Jr., one of the architects, married Mrs. Howell's daughter in 1932. The house follows the Neo-Classical Revival style of the 1930s, with a symmetrical facade, a four-columned portico recalling antebellum Greek Revival, slate roof, and Indiana limestone and cast stone details. Inside are a divided Georgian-style stairway, a paneled library, and Greek key motifs in plaster moldings and ceiling medallions. The grounds hold formal gardens and a circular drive. A two-story wing added in 1963-1964 is the only major change. It was listed for architecture, as an example of the high-style homes that defined the West Paces Ferry Road neighborhood and as a work of a leading Atlanta residential firm.","period_of_significance":"1932","architect_builder":"Cooper and Cooper, architects; Gilbert Beers, builder; William L. \"Billy\" Monroe, landscaping","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; a two-story southwest wing was added in 1963-1964.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.536014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/90002101.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206130","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134343299"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/howell-mrs-george-arthur-jr-house-90002101/"}