{"nrhp_refnum":"94001493","name":"Everett Square Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Peach County Courthouse"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Knoxville, Vineville, Anderson, and Macon Sts. and the Central of Georgia RR tracks","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Valley","county":"Peach County","state":"GA","lat":32.554299560500056,"lon":-83.89131432911256,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic residential district of about 160 acres west and northwest of downtown Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia, laid out on a grid around Everett Square, a parcel set aside in the 1830s for community buildings. It holds 201 contributing and 32 noncontributing buildings.","why_significant":"The district holds an excellent collection of houses from the 1850s into the 1940s in a range of styles and types, along with community landmark buildings such as churches, a courthouse, a post office and a school. It reflects Fort Valley's growth after the railroad arrived in 1852, especially from the 1870s to the 1920s. It also records the county and federal government presence, with the 1936 courthouse and a 1930s post office.","narrative":"Everett Square Historic District covers roughly 160 acres west and northwest of downtown Fort Valley, Georgia. It grew from a parcel of land that founder James Everett gave to the city in 1836 for community use, when the town's grid plan was established. Homes developed between the square and the commercial center, and the neighborhood expanded after the railroad arrived in 1852, with its strongest growth between the 1870s and 1920s. The district contains houses from the 1850s to the 1940s in Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Tudor-influenced styles, including bungalows and gabled-ell cottages. Architects T. Firth Lockwood and the Macon firm Dennis and Dennis designed several buildings, among them the 1936 Peach County Courthouse. Four churches, a 1927 Academic Gothic high school and a 1930s post office add civic character. The district was recognized for its architecture, its community planning and its role as a center of county government since 1924.","period_of_significance":"1836-1945","architect_builder":"T. Firth Lockwood architect; Dennis & Dennis architect","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, Folk Victorian, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Italian Renaissance, Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman, Prairie","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings are still in use as dwellings, businesses, churches, schools and government offices. The district has changed little in 50 years, apart from some houses removed for church parking and new government buildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.983515-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94001493.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001493/aa023e6b28-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001493/aa023e6b28-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peach_County_Historical_Society,_Fort_Valley,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</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:Peach_County_Historical_Society,_Fort_Valley,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000549","name":"Fort Valley Downtown and Railroad Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/fort-valley-downtown-and-railroad-historic-district-10000549/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209241","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141805099"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/peach-county/everett-square-historic-district-94001493/"}