{"nrhp_refnum":"97000405","name":"Park Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"793 Park St., SW.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.74213419800003,"lon":-84.41374991199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Gothic Revival church building at 793 Park Street S.W. in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built in 1912 to designs by architect Charles E. Choate, with a 1952 attached education building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a good example of Gothic Revival church architecture, retaining original stained-glass windows, Gothic tracery, terra-cotta detailing and heavy timber ceiling ribs. It is also significant as the work of Charles E. Choate, a Methodist minister turned architect who designed churches and other buildings across Georgia. It meets Criteria Consideration A for religious properties because its significance is architectural.","narrative":"Park Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at 793 Park Street S.W. in Atlanta, is a brick Gothic Revival church completed in 1912 on a triangular lot bounded by Park, Lee and Hammond Streets. Architect Charles E. Choate, a Georgia-born Methodist minister who became an architect, designed it to replace an 1885 Queen Anne sanctuary. The two-and-one-half-story building has variegated brown brick walls, a slate roof, a corner bell tower, buttresses, pointed-arch windows and terra-cotta trim. Inside, a vaulted ceiling with heavy timber ribs meeting at a central boss gives the sanctuary a dark, weighty character, and large stained-glass windows are believed to be by Joseph Llorens. A three-story education building was added to the rear in 1952, designed by Henry H. Jordan. The church was listed for its architecture, as a good example of Gothic Revival design and as an urban work of Choate, whose churches and other buildings are found throughout Georgia. It remains an active church.","period_of_significance":"1912","architect_builder":"Choate, Charles E., Architect for the church; Jordan, Henry H., Architect for education building","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a religious facility; the property was purchased by Clark Atlanta University in 1994, which leased it back to the congregation for church use for sixty years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.469914-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000405.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208288","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134347152"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/park-street-methodist-episcopal-church-south-97000405/"}