{"nrhp_refnum":"97000352","name":"Howell Station Historic District","other_names":["Knight Park Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. Marietta, Rice, Baylor, and Herndon Sts., Niles Cir., and Longley Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.78500920050004,"lon":-84.41965274275077,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 224 acres northwest of downtown Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, laid out in a grid in the early 1890s by developers S.D. Niles and W.B. Goldsmith. It holds 210 contributing buildings and one contributing site, Knight Park.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be of statewide significance in architecture, community planning and development, and landscape architecture. It is presented as a rare, intact blue-collar railroad and light-industry neighborhood with period house types, community landmark buildings and a park-like landscape. The listing was amended to add Ethnic Heritage (Black), because the district has housing built for both Black and white workers that can be compared directly.","narrative":"Howell Station is a blue-collar neighborhood northwest of downtown Atlanta, platted in a grid in the early 1890s by developers S.D. Niles and W.B. Goldsmith. It grew around the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which reached the area in 1843, and the light industry along Marietta Street. Early residents worked for railroad companies, followed by workers in nearby industry. The district contains 210 contributing buildings, mostly modest houses such as shotgun, Georgian cottage, bungalow, gabled-ell and Hall-Parlor types, in Craftsman and Folk Victorian styles. Four historic churches, a few brick commercial buildings on West Marietta Street, and Knight Park with its community building serve as community landmarks. Black and white residents lived in separate sections, and the surviving Black section on Herndon Street allows the two groups' housing to be compared. Tree-lined streets, granite retaining walls and informal front yards set the neighborhood apart from the surrounding industry. It was recognized for architecture, planning, landscape and ethnic heritage, with a period of significance of 1890 to 1947.","period_of_significance":"1890-1947","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian, Gabled Ell Cottage, Shotgun, Georgian Cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still largely residential with single and multiple dwellings, a department store use, and churches. The Knight Park community building closed to the public in the mid-1980s and is used for storage. About half of the original neighborhood was lost to the Mead Packaging expansion and the Fulton County Jail.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.392526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000352.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Park%E2%80%93Howell_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6422259"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/howell-station-historic-district-97000352/"}