{"nrhp_refnum":"91000479","name":"Darling, Joseph, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3066 Dennis Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Martinez","county":"Richmond County","state":"GA","lat":33.52729004300005,"lon":-82.04937111799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story frame farmhouse at 3066 Dennis Road near Martinez in Richmond County, Georgia, built about 1834 as a plantation dwelling, with an adjoining Darling family cemetery and a modern outbuilding on a 5.18-acre tract.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a good example of the Georgian Cottage type of antebellum vernacular farmhouse, with its four-room central-hall plan, symmetrical five-bay facade and heavy timber frame. It keeps Federal-era mantels, paneled doors, a simple stair and hand-planed wooden walls and ceilings. The cemetery is included as a typical rural family burial ground associated with the house.","narrative":"Near Martinez in Richmond County, Georgia, this one-and-one-half-story frame farmhouse was probably built around 1834-35 by Joseph Darling, a Baptist deacon and slave-owning planter who bought 335 acres in 1834. It follows the Georgian Cottage form common in early nineteenth-century Georgia: a gable roof, a symmetrical five-bay front, exterior chimneys and a four-room central-hall plan with a dog-leg stair. Inside, it keeps flush-board walls, board ceilings, original paneled doors and delicate Federal-style mantels, all set on a brace-frame timber structure. Later changes include an attached kitchen, a bath, a rear screened porch and a front portico added around 1930. The nominated tract also holds the Darling family cemetery, with burials from 1844 onward. The Darling family sold the property in 1856, and later owners included a banker, a judge and a mayor of Augusta. The Dennis family has owned the house since 1910. It was listed for its architecture, with a period of significance running from about 1834 to 1856.","period_of_significance":"c. 1834-1856","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Georgian Cottage (type)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling, owned by the Dennis family since 1910; additions include a kitchen, bath, rear porch and front portico.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.478593-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/91000479.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000479/f88a7c082c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000479/f88a7c082c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"NVick81","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front123.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">NVick81</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:Front123.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209357","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134456464"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/richmond-county/darling-joseph-house-91000479/"}