{"nrhp_refnum":"91000784","name":"Stovall, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Stovall Rd. S of jct. with GA 255","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"White County","state":"GA","lat":34.61182316500003,"lon":-83.67333949399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-framed I-house begun around 1850 on about eight acres along Blue Creek, near Cleveland in White County, Georgia, with a historic grist mill and barn and a nonhistoric c.1956 bridge.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a very good example of a c.1850s I-house that grew through late 19th- and early 20th-century additions, reflecting settlement patterns brought from North Carolina. Its hand-hewn early portion and later machine-turned materials show how a simple rural Georgia house evolved. The mill and barn are cited as surviving examples of typical late 19th-century rural outbuildings.","narrative":"Along Blue Creek in rural White County, Georgia, this two-story wood I-house began around 1850 as the home of John Stovall, who came from North Carolina. The plan has two rooms over two rooms with a central hall. Rear ells and a two-tiered front porch were added in the 1880s and 1890s, and a full-height columned portico with a shallow pediment followed in 1915, showing a simplified Neoclassical Revival influence. Inside, the finishes are plain, with flush-board walls, a turned-spindle staircase and simple mantels. A grist mill, partly removed, and a barn, both probably from the 1880s, survive. The Stovall family once also operated a cotton gin, sawmill, shingle mill, general store and post office here, and the family held the house for more than 130 years. The property was listed for architecture because it shows how a simple rural Georgia house of this type grew over time, and because its mill and barn illustrate the farm economy of the period.","period_of_significance":"1850-1915","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by John Stovall, the original owner)","architectural_style":"I-house (with Neoclassical Revival influence in the 1915 portico)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Remains a private single-family residence; the house is described as virtually unaltered, and the mill has been partly removed and gutted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.36027-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/91000784.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209909","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stovall_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16965992"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/white-county/stovall-john-house-91000784/"}