{"nrhp_refnum":"95001378","name":"Comer Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, Main St. from Forest Ave. to Laurel Ave., GA 72 from Oak St. past GA 98, and GA 98 from GA 72 past Paoli St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Comer","county":"Madison County","state":"GA","lat":34.06273844100005,"lon":-83.12597283588582,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small-town historic district forming the historic core of the city of Comer in Madison County, Georgia, about twenty miles northeast of Athens. It holds 174 contributing resources, mostly buildings from the 1870s to the 1940s, laid out around a railroad and road crossing.","why_significant":"The district is significant in architecture, commerce, community planning and development, and transportation. It is an intact cross-rail plan railroad town with commercial buildings, warehouses, community landmarks and a wide range of house styles. The railroad and the cotton trade drove its growth.","narrative":"Comer, in Madison County, Georgia, grew up around the Georgia, Northern and Carolina Railroad, and its historic core is laid out in a cross-rail plan where Main Street meets the tracks. The district includes one- to three-story brick commercial buildings, some with cast-iron or pressed-metal fronts, a marble-veneered 1900 bank, and warehouses that once held cotton and other farm products. Surrounding streets hold houses in Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Italianate, Craftsman and Colonial Revival styles, along with an unusually intact c.1870 single-pen cottage at 205 Madison Street. Churches, a woman's club, a 1930s high school, a 1938 WPA gymnasium and the town cemetery complete the community landmarks. Comer was incorporated in 1893, and its plan was drawn by engineer A.W. Jones. Cotton shipped by rail supported its commerce from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth. The district was recognized for its architecture, commerce, town planning and transportation history, with a period of significance from 1870 to 1945.","period_of_significance":"1870-1945","architect_builder":"E.T. Hale, First Baptist Church of Comer","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate, Gothic, Folk Victorian); Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals (Classical, Colonial, Tudor, Italian Renaissance); Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as largely intact. Most historic commercial buildings survive, and the former high school is now used as a church. There are 47 noncontributing resources.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.183155-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/95001378.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208883","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141779718"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/madison-county/comer-historic-district-95001378/"}