{"nrhp_refnum":"91001155","name":"O'Flaherty, John, House","other_names":["The Rock House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1000 Oconee Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buckhead","county":"Morgan County","state":"GA","lat":33.56884815900003,"lon":-83.35950562899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1½-story granite house with a basement, known as the Rock House, at 1000 Oconee Road in Buckhead, Morgan County, Georgia. It was built between 1896 and 1898 for John O'Flaherty beside the railroad and a ravine.","why_significant":"The house is significant for architecture because it is built of granite, a rare residential material in Georgia, with rock-faced ashlar, quoins, and lintels showing skilled stonemasonry. Its interior is finished in curly pine, rarely used as a principal wall material. It is also a relatively intact Georgian Cottage with a central hall plan, and its granite-accented yard is a good example of late-19th-century small-town landscaping.","narrative":"Built of granite between 1896 and 1898, the Rock House in Buckhead, Georgia, sits between a railroad bed and a deep ravine. John O'Flaherty, a merchant and barber who came to town from Augusta, had it built. Local tradition says the stones came by train from Stone Mountain. The house is a square, hip-roofed Georgian Cottage of 1½ stories over a basement, with a central hall and two rooms on each side. Its walls are rock-faced ashlar with quoins, granite lintels, and sills. Inside, curly pine covers walls, ceilings, and mantels, which is highly unusual. Granite is rarely used for houses in Georgia, where most are wood or brick. The yard is also noted: informal in layout, with large trees and granite retaining walls and planting beds that adapt to the sloping, awkward site. The house remains a single-family home with a few alterations, including a removed hall wall, an enclosed back porch, and attic bedrooms added about 1975.","period_of_significance":"1896-1898","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: Georgian Cottage","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; changes include a removed hall wall, an enclosed rear porch, an attic converted to bedrooms about 1975, and a rear deck.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.250767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/91001155.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001155/935c8973d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001155/935c8973d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Quentin Melson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_O%27Flaherty_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Quentin Melson</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:John_O%27Flaherty_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209039","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Flaherty_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85771667"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/morgan-county/oflaherty-john-house-91001155/"}