{"nrhp_refnum":"92000125","name":"Downtown Waycross Historic District","other_names":["See Also:US Post Office and Courthouse","Phoenix Hotel","Waycros"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Seaboard Coast Line RR tracks and Albany, Isabella, Remshart and Nicholls Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waycross","county":"Ware County","state":"GA","lat":31.209593390000066,"lon":-82.36053886528092,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district of about 15 blocks in downtown Waycross, Ware County, Georgia, laid out along two railroad corridors in the early 1870s and built up from the 1870s to the 1940s. It holds 54 contributing and 18 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is the historic central business district of Waycross and is significant in architecture, commerce, community planning and development, and transportation. Its angled grid plan, which forms triangular blocks beside the rail lines, is cited as an outstanding example of a \"railroad center\" community type. It also keeps an intact concentration of commercial, governmental, institutional and railroad-related buildings.","narrative":"Downtown Waycross, in Ware County, Georgia, is a district of about 15 blocks shaped by the railroad. The city plan was laid out in the early 1870s at the junction of two rail lines. Its grid sits at an angle to the tracks, which created triangular blocks, two of them now parks. Most buildings are attached one- to three-story brick commercial buildings with storefronts below and rows of windows above. Larger landmarks include the former U.S. Post Office and Courthouse of 1911, the five-story Bunn Building, the Phoenix Hotel, the seven-story Ware Hotel of 1928, the former YMCA designed by Henry Klutho, two railroad depots, and two churches. Gas stations, garages, warehouses and a 1939 Moderne bus station record the arrival of road travel. The district was recognized for its architecture, its role as the commercial center of a rail hub, and its distinctive railroad-center plan. Its period of significance runs from 1870 to 1942.","period_of_significance":"1870-1942","architect_builder":"Henry J. Klutho; James Knox Taylor, U.S. Treasury Department; G. W. Stone; V. C. Parker","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate); Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Classical Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance); Modern Movement (Moderne, Art Deco)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Mostly still in use. The former post office and courthouse has been restored for retail and office space, the former YMCA is now City Hall, and the Phoenix and Ware hotels are being renovated for retail and housing. The Murson Hotel is vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.176591-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/92000125.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000125/a23c2cfc20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000125/a23c2cfc20-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daffydoc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waycross_Hx_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daffydoc</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waycross_Hx_District.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"76000656","name":"Waycross Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/waycross-historic-district-76000656/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209853","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Waycross_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30622475"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/ware-county/downtown-waycross-historic-district-92000125/"}