{"nrhp_refnum":"93001138","name":"Gaskin Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Madison Ave., Wilson St., Pearl Ave., Gordon St., McDonald Ave., Atlantic Coastline RR and Coffee Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"Douglas","county":"Coffee County","state":"GA","lat":31.515239472500042,"lon":-82.84657776136788,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic residential district of about 200 acres north and east of downtown Douglas, Coffee County, Georgia, centered on Gaskin Avenue and developed from about 1890 into the early 1940s. It has 250 contributing and 135 noncontributing buildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be the major historic residential area of Douglas. It is significant in architecture for its large, intact collection of houses and 1930s community buildings. It is significant in community planning for its growth on an extension of the original town grid. It is significant in landscape architecture as an example of the New South residential landscape form.","narrative":"Gaskin Avenue anchors a large residential neighborhood of roughly 200 acres north and east of downtown Douglas, Georgia. Houses were built here from about 1890 into the early 1940s on an extension of the town's original grid. The largest and most stylish homes cluster along Gaskin Avenue and nearby streets, while more modest housing lies toward the north and south edges. Styles range from Queen Anne and Folk Victorian to Neoclassical, Italian Renaissance, Spanish Colonial and Craftsman, along with simple house types with few details. Most houses are wood-framed with clapboard siding, and others are brick-veneered or stuccoed. Three community buildings from the 1930s survive: a Colonial Revival Catholic church, a former hospital, and a Craftsman women's clubhouse. Tree-lined streets, curbs, sidewalks, uniform setbacks and informally landscaped front yards give the area the look of a landscaped park. It was listed for its architecture, its role in the city's growth, and this New South landscape character.","period_of_significance":"c.1890-1942","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Classical Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Mostly residential and still in use. Current uses include single dwellings, professional offices and shops, government offices, a clubhouse and a church. The former hospital is now used by the county board of education.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.307075-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/93001138.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001138/e45fbe0bd9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001138/e45fbe0bd9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daffydoc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Evans_Home_328_N_Gaskin_Ave.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:The_Evans_Home_328_N_Gaskin_Ave.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207624","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaskin_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40888595"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/coffee-county/gaskin-avenue-historic-district-93001138/"}