{"nrhp_refnum":"94000572","name":"Jarrett-Hayes House","other_names":["Liberty Lodge"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Co. Rt. 3, NE side, about 2 mi. E of GA 184","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toccoa","county":"Stephens County","state":"GA","lat":34.62898165800004,"lon":-83.25906875268302,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick I-house with a two-story rear ell, known as Liberty Lodge, on a 20-acre tract overlooking Lake Hartwell about eight miles northeast of Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia. It was built c. 1848 for Robert Jarrett.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for architecture as a rare, intact example of a brick I-house in Georgia. Of 267 I-houses in the state's survey database, only three are brick. It shows mid-1800s construction methods, including hand-made on-site bricks, pegged heart pine woodwork and turned balusters, and reflects the wealth and standing of the Jarrett family.","narrative":"Overlooking Lake Hartwell near Toccoa, this two-story brick I-house with a rear ell was built around 1848 for Robert Jarrett, who used enslaved labor and bricks made on the property. The hand-made bricks are laid in common bond, and the five-bay front has a two-story portico with a second-floor balcony. Inside, a central hall divides two rooms on each side, and the heart pine woodwork is pegged, with classical mantels, turned newel posts and hardware imported from England. A two-story addition and a replacement portico date to 1959. The house is valued as a rare brick example of a house type usually built of wood: only three of 267 I-houses in Georgia's survey database are brick. It once anchored a plantation of about 800 acres, and the lake's creation ended its farming use. The 20-acre tract includes stone chimney ruins of a loom house and the sites of former outbuildings.","period_of_significance":"c. 1848","architect_builder":"Robert Jarrett (owner) built the house with slave labor.","architectural_style":"OTHER: I-House","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the 1959 additions and replacement portico are noted, and the historic outbuildings are gone apart from loom house chimney ruins.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.276849-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94000572.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000572/368c46f6be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000572/368c46f6be-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cyntata2672","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_view_of_Jarrett-Hayes_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyntata2672</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:Front_view_of_Jarrett-Hayes_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209479","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrett-Hayes_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105063682"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/stephens-county/jarrett-hayes-house-94000572/"}