{"nrhp_refnum":"94000371","name":"Tifton Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Tifton Commercial Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Third St., Tift Ave., Ninth St. and Commerce Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tifton","county":"Tift County","state":"GA","lat":31.451136563000034,"lon":-83.50924845610511,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Politics/Government","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase and amendment to the Tifton Commercial Historic District in downtown Tifton, Tift County, Georgia. It extends the district south to add contiguous commercial buildings from the 1890s to 1942.","why_significant":"The expanded district is significant in architecture, community planning and development, commerce, and transportation. It documents Tifton's southward growth during the 1930s and 1940s as tobacco and agriculture replaced the timber economy. It also reflects the influence of the railroad and automobile and the history of a displaced African-American commercial area.","narrative":"This amendment enlarges Tifton's downtown commercial historic district southward by four blocks along South Main Street, Commerce Way, and nearby cross streets. The added area holds mostly modest one- and two-story brick storefronts built between the 1890s and 1942, along with the Masonic Lodge, the Tifton Buggy Works, an auto dealership, former gas stations, a tobacco warehouse, and the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Depot. Architectural influences range from Late Victorian to Stripped Classical, Art Deco, Art Moderne, and Spanish Mission. The amendment also extends the period of significance to 1942 to cover the building boom of the late 1930s, when tobacco and agriculture revived the local economy after the 1916 sawmill closing. The area is significant for architecture, community planning, commerce, and transportation. It also records a former African-American commercial section on East Fifth Street that shifted south as the city expanded. The Bowen Building in the original area was reclassified as contributing.","period_of_significance":"1890-1942","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Stripped Classical, Art Deco, Art Moderne, Spanish Mission, and functional commercial buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly one- and two-story historic commercial buildings, many still used for stores and businesses. The amended district has 85 contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and 23 noncontributing buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.650421-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94000371.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000371/68c99c4888-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000371/68c99c4888-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Rivera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:219_Main_St_S,_Tifton.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Rivera</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:219_Main_St_S,_Tifton.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86000382","name":"Tifton Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/tifton-commercial-historic-district-86000382/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209687","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifton_Commercial_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14686875"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/tift-county/tifton-commercial-historic-district-boundary-increase-94000371/"}