{"nrhp_refnum":"93000439","name":"Stewart, Dr. James A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Grady St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Portal","county":"Bulloch County","state":"GA","lat":32.539752864000036,"lon":-81.93102405899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame Georgian Cottage house with Folk Victorian porch woodwork on Grady Street in Portal, Bulloch County, Georgia, built around 1908-1909 for local doctor James A. Stewart, with surviving outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is described as the earliest surviving residential structure in Portal and an intact example of a four-room, central-hall Georgian Cottage with local craftsman woodwork. It is also tied to Dr. J. A. Stewart (1880-1952), the town's first doctor, pharmacist and civic leader. An unusually complete set of outbuildings illustrates a turn-of-the-century domestic property.","narrative":"Built around 1908-1909 on Grady Street in Portal, Georgia, this one-story frame house was the home of Dr. James A. Stewart, a young physician who arrived in the area after graduating from medical college in 1906. It is the earliest surviving house in the town. The heart pine house follows a four-room, central-hall plan under a large hipped roof, with a full-length front porch decorated in machine-cut Folk Victorian trim and ornamented gables. Original mantels, doors, plank walls and a once decoratively painted hallway wainscot remain. Several outbuildings also survive, including a privy, barn, stables, garage, brick horse trough and brick boiler. Stewart became Portal's most prominent citizen, running a drugstore, serving on the first town council in 1914, and helping raise funds to keep rail service running. The property was recognized for its architecture, for its link to him, and for its role in the town's early growth.","period_of_significance":"1908-1943","architect_builder":"unknown (built by local carpenter-builders)","architectural_style":"Other: Folk Victorian; Georgian Cottage","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as recreation and culture/museum; the form says changes to the house have been minimal and the interiors appear intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.889356-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/93000439.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000439/658434851b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000439/658434851b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._James_A_Stewart_House,_Portal,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jud McCranie</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:Dr._James_A_Stewart_House,_Portal,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207167","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134133278"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bulloch-county/stewart-dr-james-a-house-93000439/"}