{"nrhp_refnum":"96000875","name":"Rocksprings Shotgun Row Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"433--447 Rocksprings St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.94746226900003,"lon":-83.39121494199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-08-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of six shotgun houses in a row at 433-447 Rocksprings Street in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, built about 1925. No architect or builder is identified.","why_significant":"The district is an intact grouping of a rare urban building type, the shotgun house, of which only 55 of 1,600 surveyed Athens-Clarke County properties were identified. It is also tied to African-American working-class history, since the houses were built for Black laborers, many of whom likely worked for households on nearby Milledge Avenue. It was judged significant under Criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Six small shotgun houses stand side by side along Rocksprings Street in Athens, Georgia, all built around 1925. Each is one story, one room wide and about three rooms deep, with a front-gable metal roof, weatherboard siding, a simple shed porch and original six-over-six windows. Inside, tongue-and-groove boards cover the walls and ceilings, and plain mantels and moldings survive. Small rear or side additions mostly hold bathrooms. The houses were built from inexpensive materials to shelter low-income Black laborers, likely including domestic workers for the grand homes along nearby Milledge Avenue. A 1926 Sanborn map places the row near African-American churches. The row is the only intact cluster of shotgun houses left in an area that has changed dramatically. Only 55 shotgun or double-shotgun buildings turned up among 1,600 surveyed properties in Athens-Clarke County, so the group was listed for its architecture and its link to the city's African-American working-class history.","period_of_significance":"c.1925","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No Style: Vernacular (shotgun house type)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is single dwelling; the houses were recently restored, with Bricktex siding removed from three of them.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.350024-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96000875.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000875/fa91b2c34a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000875/fa91b2c34a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:439_S_Rockprings_Street,_c.1920,_photographer_facing_NE_(2).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gwringle</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:439_S_Rockprings_Street,_c.1920,_photographer_facing_NE_(2).JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001000","name":"West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/west-cloverhurst-avenue-historic-district-07001000/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205928","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141741514"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/rocksprings-shotgun-row-historic-district-96000875/"}