{"nrhp_refnum":"93001572","name":"Jones, Abe, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2411 Hog Mountain Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Watkinsville","county":"Oconee County","state":"GA","lat":33.86711354400006,"lon":-83.44711996499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story Folk Victorian farmhouse built in 1905 on a 2.46-acre lot on Georgia Highway 53, about 2.5 miles from downtown Watkinsville, Oconee County, Georgia.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact example of the Folk Victorian style popular around the turn of the century in Georgia. It is also a late example of the \"Georgian Cottage\" house type, with an atypical modified central hall plan that adds a room for the original owner's ten children. It is eligible locally under Criterion C in the area of architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1905 as the farmhouse for a 93-acre cotton farm, this one-and-a-half-story house near Watkinsville, Georgia, reflects the Folk Victorian style of the turn of the century. It has a hipped roof with multiple gables, a wraparound front porch with turned posts and brackets, clipped corners, pointed-arch gable vents and a small Palladian dormer window. Inside, a modified central hall plan includes an extra room on the east side, added because original owner Abe Jones had ten children. Five original wood mantels, heart pine doors and beaded ceilings survive. Jones lost the land in 1926 amid the cotton economy's collapse after the boll weevil, though his family stayed on until 1940. The farmland was later subdivided, leaving the house on 2.46 acres. After a certified rehabilitation in 1990, it serves as office space. It was listed for its architecture as an intact local example of the Folk Victorian style and the Georgian Cottage type.","period_of_significance":"1905","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Folk Victorian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1990 (certified rehab) for commercial use; currently used as a medical office by a hospital outreach program.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.359275-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/93001572.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001572/a12d2174e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001572/a12d2174e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abe_Jones_House,_c.1930,_photographer_facing_south.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:Abe_Jones_House,_c.1930,_photographer_facing_south.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209206","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134440564"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/oconee-county/jones-abe-house-93001572/"}