{"nrhp_refnum":"97000099","name":"Ewell Brown General Store","other_names":["Ewell Brown General Merchandise Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"RR Ave., jct. with Lawrence St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lake Park","county":"Lowndes County","state":"GA","lat":30.683476080000048,"lon":-83.18144028499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick commercial building on Railroad Avenue in Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, built about 1890 by the Lake Park Improvement Company and used as a general store.","why_significant":"It is presented as a good, intact example of a Folk Victorian brick commercial building in a small Georgia town, keeping its decorative brick facade, painted advertising sign and interior features. It also served as a drug store and general merchandise store that was a major gathering and communication point for the Lake Park community.","narrative":"Built around 1890 by the Lake Park Improvement Company, this one-story brick building on Railroad Avenue in Lake Park, Georgia, served for decades as the town's general store. It began as a drug and general merchandise store run by Dr. E. Taylor. Ewell Brown, who started as a pill roller and assistant in 1892, bought it in 1899 and renamed it Ewell Brown, Lender in Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries and General Merchandise. The store sold household goods, buggy and horse supplies, clothing and offered catalog ordering, and it became a place where news was shared and community activities were planned. It closed in the 1950s after the realignment of US Highway 41 reduced trade. The building keeps a decorative brick front with dog-tooth string courses, a faded painted advertisement on the east wall, and original shelving, beaded-board ceiling and wood floors inside. It was donated to the Lake Park Historical Society in 1994 for use as a museum.","period_of_significance":"c.1890-1946","architect_builder":"Unknown; financed by the Lake Park Improvement Company","architectural_style":"Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Donated in 1994 to the Lake Park Historical Society for use as a museum; the form lists its current function as museum. The building was used for storage, and briefly for an antique store, after the store closed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.025612-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000099.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000099/9638afd6a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000099/9638afd6a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Park_GA_Brown_Store01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Park_GA_Brown_Store01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewell_Brown_General_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16891161"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/lowndes-county/ewell-brown-general-store-97000099/"}