{"nrhp_refnum":"93000932","name":"Lincolnton Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Lincolnton Presgbyterian Church and Cemetery","Lamar-"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, along Washington, Peachtree, Goshen and Elm Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincolnton","county":"Lincoln County","state":"GA","lat":33.79391777200007,"lon":-82.47587207327575,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-09-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the historic core of Lincolnton, the county seat of Lincoln County, Georgia, including the central business district, residential neighborhoods and civic and religious landmarks. It contains 133 contributing and 46 noncontributing resources dating from the 1820s to 1942.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under Criteria A and C for its role in the settlement and growth of Lincoln County and for its representative late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture. It illustrates a scattered crossroads-community development pattern, a historic commercial core, and a 1935 WPA-built Women's Club building. The period of significance runs from 1796, when the post office was established, to 1942.","narrative":"Lincolnton's historic district preserves the core of a small Georgia county seat that grew around a spring and a crossroads. It includes the commercial center, scattered residential streets, and civic and religious landmarks, with 133 contributing resources. Three antebellum survivors remain, including the 1823 Union Church and the early 1820s Lamar-Blanchard House, a former tavern. Most buildings date from the early twentieth century, when the town saw its greatest growth. They include the 1915 Neoclassical Revival courthouse designed by G. L. Preacher, Methodist and Baptist churches, a 1941 Streamline Moderne hotel, a 1930s gas station, and a 1911 Sears, Roebuck mail-order house. A 1935 Women's Club building was a Works Progress Administration project. The district was recognized for its architecture, its commercial history, and its irregular crossroads plan, which shows slow, dispersed growth rather than a planned courthouse-square layout. Its period of significance spans 1796 to 1942.","period_of_significance":"1796 - 1942","architect_builder":"G. L. Preacher (Lincoln County Courthouse)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Streamlined Moderne, Stripped Classical, Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district continues in historic uses: courthouse, commerce, dwellings and churches. The oldest existing store is noted as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.521964-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/93000932.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000932/79577ca030-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000932/79577ca030-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lincolnton_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Lincolnton_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206328","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnton_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85776723"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/lincoln-county/lincolnton-historic-district-93000932/"}