{"nrhp_refnum":"96001339","name":"Savannah Avenue Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Donehoo--Brannen House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Along Savannah Ave. and E. Grady St. between S. Crescent Cir.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Statesboro","county":"Bulloch County","state":"GA","lat":32.44577299450003,"lon":-81.7752505358336,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 50 acres along Savannah Avenue and East Grady Street in Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia, southeast of downtown. It holds 49 contributing and 29 noncontributing buildings, all single dwellings and related outbuildings, built mostly between 1908 and 1946.","why_significant":"The district is described as Statesboro's first suburb. It is significant in architecture for its range of styles and house types popular in Georgia in the first half of the 20th century. It is also significant in community planning and development because it shows post-railroad growth away from the city center and the influence of the automobile on suburban layout.","narrative":"Savannah Avenue in Statesboro, Georgia, was once the main road to Savannah and became the town's first suburb. The historic district covers about 50 acres of mostly single-family houses laid out on a grid, with sidewalks, rear alleys, uniform setbacks and tree-lined medians on College Boulevard and Park Avenue. Development began after 1907, when the South Georgia Land Company sold lots in the Highland Park Subdivision. Builder Joe Fields later put up inexpensive bungalows, some bought from Sears and Roebuck, for soldiers returning from World War I. Building continued into the 1940s. The result is a mixed streetscape of Georgian cottages, American Foursquares, Neoclassical, Spanish Colonial, Tudor and Colonial Revival houses, and Craftsman bungalows. The grand Donehoo-Brannen House, built 1915-1917, is the district's only Neoclassical Revival example. The district was listed for its architecture and for what it shows about automobile-era suburban planning in early 20th-century Georgia.","period_of_significance":"1907-1946","architect_builder":"Edward C. Hosford & Company (Eastman, GA), architect, and J. B. Sargent (Statesboro), builder, for the Donehoo-Brannen House at 332 Savannah Avenue; Walter Alred, architect of houses at 322, 326, and 340 Savannah Avenue; Joe Fields, local builder of bungalows.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival); Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is still domestic, single dwelling; the district is exclusively residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.151584-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96001339.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001339/62f3c49dcd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001339/62f3c49dcd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73","credit_html":"Bubba73, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Savannah_Avenue_Historic_District,_Statesboro,_GA,_US_(19).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207163","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30622041"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bulloch-county/savannah-avenue-historic-district-96001339/"}