{"nrhp_refnum":"94000713","name":"Madden, Charles, House","other_names":["Madden--Smith House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"302 E. South Central St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tennille","county":"Washington County","state":"GA","lat":32.93677482700008,"lon":-82.80784183599997,"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-and-one-half story Queen Anne-style frame house at 302 East South Central Street in Tennille, Washington County, Georgia, designed in 1899 by architect Charles E. Choate for Charles Madden.","why_significant":"It is one of Choate's early residential works in Washington County and his smallest house in the Sandersville-Tennille area. It is a well-preserved example of the Queen Anne vernacular house type with an intact plan and massing. It is also the only documented Choate commission for a Black client.","narrative":"Built in 1899 at 302 East South Central Street in Tennille, this one-and-one-half story frame house was designed by architect Charles E. Choate for Charles Madden, a Black mail agent on the Washington and Tennille Railroad. The house has a multi-gabled and hipped roof, a three-sided bay window, and a front porch with paired Doric columns and arched panels between the supports. Choate's characteristic \"harp\" brackets appear beneath the front gable. Inside, three main rooms are arranged without a central hall, following the Queen Anne vernacular type common in Georgia around 1900. Aluminum siding covers the original wood siding but follows its pattern and has not hidden the detailing. The house was listed for its architecture. It is among Choate's early residential designs, the smallest he produced in the Sandersville-Tennille area, and the only documented one for a Black client. It reflects his work in a simpler, vernacular form. The house remains a single-family home on its original lot.","period_of_significance":"1899","architect_builder":"Charles E. Choate, architect","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; aluminum siding covers the original wood siding, and the form says the owner was removing it to restore the wood.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.991784-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94000713.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000713/226819caff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000713/226819caff-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Madden_House_side_street_view.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Jennings</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:Charles_Madden_House_side_street_view.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206700","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Madden_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65079332"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/washington-county/madden-charles-house-94000713/"}