{"nrhp_refnum":"94000710","name":"Holt Brothers Banking Company Building","other_names":["First National Bank"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100--106 Malone St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandersville","county":"Washington County","state":"GA","lat":32.983897322000075,"lon":-82.81094187099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay brick commercial building at 100-106 Malone Street on the square in downtown Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia, built in 1898 and designed by Charles E. Choate as architect and builder.","why_significant":"The building is one of the most elaborate Choate-designed commercial buildings in Washington County and among the most elaborate in Sandersville and Tennille. It is also one of Choate's earliest works in the area. It is a good example of a late 19th-century storefront building and a corner landmark with two significant facades.","narrative":"Built in 1898 on the square in downtown Sandersville, this two-story brick commercial building was designed by Charles E. Choate, who also served as its builder. The Holt Brothers, Lewis and Lake B. Holt, bought the corner lot at auction in November 1897 and opened the First National Bank in the new building in 1901. The facade features a rusticated first story, an arched central doorway with a colored glass fanlight, marble ornamentation, and a brick parapet with marble brackets. Inside are a pressed-metal coffered ceiling, a bank vault with carved Ionic pilasters and its original painted decoration, and second-floor offices with beaded wainscoting. The rear roofline has the curved profile Choate used on his commercial buildings. The property is considered significant for architecture as one of the most elaborate commercial works Choate designed in Washington County, and as one of his earliest there. It was later converted to stores and offices, and the first floor now holds shops.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":"Charles E. Choate, architect","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Renaissance; Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"First-floor stores are in use as clothing shops; the second floor remains vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.830071-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94000710.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000710/d284802d8b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000710/d284802d8b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holt_Bank_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Jennings</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:Holt_Bank_Building.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000120","name":"Sandersville Commercial and Industrial District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/sandersville-commercial-and-industrial-district-02000120/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206694","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holt_Brothers_Banking_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16995712"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/washington-county/holt-brothers-banking-company-building-94000710/"}