{"nrhp_refnum":"97000527","name":"Auburn Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 3rd Ave., 6th St., 6th Ave., and Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Auburn","county":"Barrow County","state":"GA","lat":34.01299631450007,"lon":-83.82712400634693,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small railroad-town historic district in Auburn, Barrow County, Georgia, centered on the east-west railroad and old U.S. 29/GA Highway 8. It holds 24 contributing resources, mostly buildings from about 1891 to 1947, plus the town cemetery and the rail line.","why_significant":"The district is significant for architecture, community planning and development, and transportation. Its houses and commercial buildings are typical small-town Georgia types of the 1890s to 1920s. The 1891 arrival of the railroad created the town's grid plan around the tracks and brought a new community to a farming area.","narrative":"Auburn's historic core is a railroad town in Barrow County, Georgia, laid out around an east-west rail line after the Seaboard Railroad arrived in 1891. The district covers a small commercial strip, late 19th and early 20th century neighborhoods, and the town cemetery at its edge. Its 24 contributing resources include modest frame houses such as Georgian-type, gabled-ell, Queen Anne-type and I-house cottages, Craftsman bungalows, and two railroad section houses. Brick and stone stores recall the town's boom years. The railroad brought incorporation in 1892, a grid plan, warehouses and a switching track, and it supported the Perry-Rainey Institute, a Baptist school that drew students from across the state until it closed in 1924. The depot, warehouses and school buildings have been lost, but the street pattern and the working rail line survive. The district represents typical small-town Georgia architecture and railroad-driven town planning between about 1891 and 1947.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1891-1947","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century American movements (bungalow/Craftsman); Late Victorian (Queen Anne type cottages); Folk Victorian; Georgian-type, gabled-ell, I-house and central hall-type cottages","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Some historic buildings are in current use as a city hall annex, library, restaurants, shops and homes. The railroad is still in use. The depot, railroad warehouses and the Perry-Rainey Institute administration building are gone.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.531032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000527/29b0a85cad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000527/29b0a85cad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Davidmcarlson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auburn_Historic_District_-_Georgia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Davidmcarlson</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:Auburn_Historic_District_-_Georgia.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206907","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141700616"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/barrow-county/auburn-historic-district-97000527/"}