{"nrhp_refnum":"95000908","name":"Thomaston Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Carnegie Library","Lamar County Courthouse"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, along Thomaston and Greenwood Sts. and Stafford and Georgia Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Barnesville","county":"Lamar County","state":"GA","lat":33.046013200500056,"lon":-84.15951981896606,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district southwest of downtown Barnesville, the county seat of Lamar County, Georgia, along Thomaston and Greenwood Streets and Stafford and Georgia Avenues. It holds 203 contributing and 35 noncontributing resources, mostly houses from the 1870s to the 1940s plus community landmark buildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to hold the best collection of Late Victorian residential architecture in Barnesville, along with intact early 20th-century civic, religious and educational buildings. It also reflects the work of Atlanta architect Eugene C. Wachendorff. The historic drill field is significant for recreation, and the 1929 Woman's Clubhouse for social and humanitarian history.","narrative":"Southwest of Barnesville's commercial center, this neighborhood in Lamar County, Georgia, combines houses built from the 1870s into the 1940s with several community landmarks. Gabled-ell cottages, Queen Anne and Italianate houses with spindlework and bargeboard, Neoclassical and Colonial Revival homes, and Craftsman bungalows show how a middle- to upper-class neighborhood in a small Georgia city developed. Atlanta architect Eugene C. Wachendorff designed several larger houses on Thomaston Street and the 1931 Lamar County Courthouse. The Carnegie Library, the 1939 First United Methodist Church, the 1929 Woman's Clubhouse, Turner Hall and the county jail add civic character. A drill field donated to the city as a public park in 1912 has served as a race track, football field and drill ground. The district was listed for its architecture, for its recreation history, and for the social role of the women's club, with a period of significance running from the 1870s to 1944.","period_of_significance":"1870s-1944","architect_builder":"Eugene C. Wachendorff, Atlanta, architect of the Courthouse & several residences; Whitfield and King, New York City, architects of the Carnegie Library","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate, Folk Victorian), Neoclassical, Colonial, Italian Renaissance and Tudor Revivals, Bungalow/Craftsman, American Foursquare","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district is described as very intact, with only 35 noncontributing buildings out of 238 resources. Current functions remain largely domestic, government, education, social and religious.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.243051-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/95000908.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000908/d856514bf2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000908/d856514bf2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Timkemp","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomaston_Street_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Timkemp</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:Thomaston_Street_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208769","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141773730"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/lamar-county/thomaston-street-historic-district-95000908/"}