{"nrhp_refnum":"96000598","name":"Lamar, Joseph Rucker, Boyhood Home","other_names":["Phinizy House","Poole's Tourist Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"415 7th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Augusta","county":"Richmond County","state":"GA","lat":33.47205777500005,"lon":-81.96497774599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2 1/2-story Italianate brick house at 415 Seventh Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia, built as a church parsonage around the mid-1800s, with later additions and a history as a boarding house.","why_significant":"The house was the boyhood home of Joseph Rucker Lamar, who lived there as a child and later served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1911 to 1915. He grew up there next door to future President Woodrow Wilson, and the two boys became close friends in the late 1860s. The house is one of the few residential buildings left in a once-residential area.","narrative":"This 2 1/2-story brick house at 415 Seventh Street in downtown Augusta was the boyhood home of Joseph Rucker Lamar, who later became a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was built as a parsonage for the Christian Church, where Lamar's father served. The house has a front-gable roof, bracketed eaves, a raised front porch with original fluted wood columns and cast-iron Corinthian capitals, and a side-hall plan with two large rooms. Additions were made at the rear and southwest corner, and the interior was subdivided when the building served as a boarding house. Lamar spent part of his childhood here, including the Civil War years. Next door, in the Presbyterian parsonage, lived Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who became his close friend and later President. Lamar joined the Supreme Court in 1911 and died in 1916. The house now operates as a house museum and is one of few remaining residential buildings in its changed downtown surroundings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current function is a house museum; exterior materials are described as in good condition and interior finishes in fair to good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.358521-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96000598.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000598/90a9d01eea-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000598/90a9d01eea-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOSEPH_RUCKER_LAMAR_BOYHOOD_HOME.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:JOSEPH_RUCKER_LAMAR_BOYHOOD_HOME.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04000515","name":"Augusta Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/augusta-downtown-historic-district-04000515/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209381","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rucker_Lamar_Boyhood_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16988321"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/richmond-county/lamar-joseph-rucker-boyhood-home-96000598/"}