{"nrhp_refnum":"94000787","name":"South Candler Street-Agnes Scott College Historic District","other_names":["Decatur Female Seminary (1889)","Agnes Scott Institute (1890-1"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. College, S. McDonough, S. Candler, E. Hill and E. Davis Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Decatur","county":"DeKalb County","state":"GA","lat":33.76464468900005,"lon":-84.29357238136164,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Decatur, De Kalb County, Georgia, south of the courthouse square, combining the residential South Candler Street neighborhood (developed from the 1880s) with the campus of Agnes Scott College, a private women's college founded in 1889.","why_significant":"The district is significant in architecture for its good examples of late 19th- and early 20th-century house styles and types, and for Academic Gothic Revival college buildings by locally prominent architects. It is also significant in education through the history of Agnes Scott College, which drove development of the neighborhood. South Candler Street holds the best collection of Late Victorian architecture in the Decatur area.","narrative":"This Decatur, Georgia district pairs one of the city's oldest and most intact residential neighborhoods with the historic campus of Agnes Scott College. South Candler Street began developing in the 1880s as large homes on large lots, and its houses range from Italianate and Queen Anne examples to Folk Victorian cottages, Colonial Revival residences, Craftsman bungalows, and a few Tudor Revival and Minimal Traditional homes of the early 1940s. The college began in 1889 as the Decatur Female Seminary, founded by Presbyterian minister Frank H. Gaines, and became a main catalyst for the neighborhood's growth. Many early residents were its trustees, supporters, and faculty. Its campus is dominated by Academic Gothic Revival buildings, beginning with Agnes Scott Hall of 1891, designed by Bruce and Morgan. The district was listed for its architecture and its role in education, with a period of significance running from about 1880 to 1943. It includes 91 contributing and 21 noncontributing resources.","period_of_significance":"c.1880-1943","architect_builder":"Bruce & Morgan; Morgan & Dillon; Edwards and Sayward; Logan & Williams; Robert & Company; Ivy and Crook; Edwards & Portman; William Sayward; Leila Ross Wilburn; Roy M. Abernathy; William Ansley; Guy Walter Rutland; E. E. Treadwell","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate), Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals (Classical, Colonial, Tudor, Late Gothic Revival), Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian, Minimal Traditional","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic functions of college and residential use continue today; most houses are in good condition with relatively few exterior alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.161982-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94000787.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000787/9fb910ac9f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000787/9fb910ac9f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Geoff Bartlett","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agnes_Scott_College_Campus.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Geoff Bartlett</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:Agnes_Scott_College_Campus.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207810","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Candler_Street%E2%80%93Agnes_Scott_College_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7566498"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dekalb-county/south-candler-street-agnes-scott-college-historic-district-94000787/"}