{"nrhp_refnum":"94000711","name":"Johnson, James E., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"425 W. Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandersville","county":"Washington County","state":"GA","lat":32.981184701000075,"lon":-82.81762781299994,"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 one-story Queen Anne-style frame single-family house at 425 West Church Street in Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia, built in 1900 and designed by architect Charles E. Choate for James Emmett Johnson.","why_significant":"The house contains one of the most elaborate and intact interior residential designs by Charles E. Choate in the Washington County area. Its interior has nearly all of his design signatures, and its surviving exterior details reflect his early local work, even though the original front porch was replaced.","narrative":"This one-story Queen Anne house on West Church Street in Sandersville was built in 1900 for James Emmett Johnson, a local banker and later president of the Sandersville Railroad. Johnson hired architect Charles E. Choate to design the home, and a local builder named Schwall helped construct it. The frame house has a hipped and gabled roof, a corner turret, two bay windows with harp-shaped brackets, corbelled brick chimneys and a decorative dormer. Its original wrap-around porch was later replaced with a smaller brick porch, and a rear sleeping porch added in 1908 was enclosed and extended in the 1960s. Inside, a central hall with a pierced wooden screen, beaded wainscoting, pocket doors, corner fireplaces and ornamented mantels survive largely intact. The house was listed for its architecture because it is one of the most elaborate and complete examples of Choate's interior residential design in Washington County, and it represents his early local work.","period_of_significance":"1900","architect_builder":"Charles E. Choate, architect; Mr. Schwall, a local builder, assisted Choate and constructed the house","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current use is a single dwelling; the original wrap-around porch has been replaced by a nonhistoric brick porch, and the rear sleeping porch was enclosed and extended in the 1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.6021-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94000711.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000711/0d59140fb9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000711/0d59140fb9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_E._Johnson_in_Sandersville,_GA.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:James_E._Johnson_in_Sandersville,_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206696","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134466787"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/washington-county/johnson-james-e-house-94000711/"}