{"nrhp_refnum":"96001020","name":"Vidalia Commercial Historic District","other_names":["Downtown Vidalia","See Also:Citizens Bank of Vidalia"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Meadow, Jackson, Pine, and Thompson Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vidalia","county":"Toombs County","state":"GA","lat":32.22672388250004,"lon":-82.41078081856921,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Politics/Government","Transportation","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district forming the historic core of downtown Vidalia, Toombs County, Georgia, with 69 contributing buildings, mostly built from about 1900 to the mid-1940s around the railroad tracks.","why_significant":"The district is significant in architecture, commerce, politics and government, community planning and development, and transportation. It preserves intact masonry commercial and landmark buildings, including work by architect Ivey P. Crutchfield, a 1937 WPA post office with a mural, and a cross-rail railroad town plan tied to the arrival of the SAM railroad.","narrative":"Downtown Vidalia grew up around the railroad, and its historic commercial core still follows the grid of streets laid parallel and perpendicular to the tracks. The district holds 69 contributing buildings, one to three stories tall, built from about 1900 to the mid-1940s. Styles range from Victorian-era brick storefronts with decorative brickwork to Neoclassical, Colonial Revival, Stripped Classical, Art Deco and Art Moderne designs. Landmarks include the Citizens Bank of Vidalia, the former First National Bank designed by Ivey P. Crutchfield, the 1910 Georgia Central Depot, and the 1937 post office, now City Hall, which contains a WPA mural by Daniel Celentano. The arrival of the Savannah, Americus & Montgomery railroad in the 1890s turned Vidalia into a regional commercial center and rail hub, with several lines by 1910. The district was recognized for its architecture, its commercial and government history, its planning, and its transportation role.","period_of_significance":"c.1900-1946","architect_builder":"Ivey P. Crutchfield, architect; Daniel Celentano, artist; John T. Ragan Company, builder","architectural_style":"20th Century Commercial, Commercial Victorian Vernacular, Stripped Classical, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Art Deco, Art Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Many buildings remain in commercial use; the 1937 post office is now City Hall, and the 1910 depot houses CSX Railroad offices after a 1989 renovation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.503554-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96001020.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001020/3faccca5a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001020/3faccca5a1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vidalia_C._Historic_District_(corner_of_SE_Main_and_McIntosh.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</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:Vidalia_C._Historic_District_(corner_of_SE_Main_and_McIntosh.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209709","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia_Commercial_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29093468"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/toombs-county/vidalia-commercial-historic-district-96001020/"}