{"nrhp_refnum":"97000620","name":"Ashby Street Shotgun Row Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"207, 209, and 211 Ashby St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Americus","county":"Sumter County","state":"GA","lat":32.07745906300005,"lon":-84.22728222099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of three side-by-side wooden shotgun houses at 207, 209 and 211 Ashby Street in the McCoy Hill neighborhood north of downtown Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, built c. 1908 to c. 1912.","why_significant":"The houses are argued to be excellent, intact examples of shotgun-type houses with Folk Victorian features, and are among the finest remaining in Americus. They also represent McCoy Hill, the principal African-American neighborhood in Americus, settled by freed slaves in the 1870s and prosperous from the 1890s through the 1940s.","narrative":"Three narrow wooden houses stand side by side on Ashby Street in Americus, Georgia, in the McCoy Hill neighborhood, historically African-American. Built between about 1908 and 1912, they are shotgun-type dwellings with Folk Victorian touches, including full-width front porches with square or turned columns, front gables with ventilation grills, transoms over the doors and six-over-six windows. Inside, each is one room wide and three rooms deep with no hallway, and a double-sided fireplace sits between the front two rooms. They are significant for architecture because they keep their long, narrow form and ornamented porches in a uniform row, and shotgun houses have become increasingly rare in the city. They also matter for ethnic heritage. McCoy Hill was settled by freed slaves in the 1870s and became the main Black neighborhood in Americus, with churches, stores, a school and a hospital. Much of that neighborhood has since been lost, leaving these houses as rare reminders of it. Rehabilitation was under way at the time of listing.","period_of_significance":"c.1908-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Folk Victorian; Shotgun","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The three houses were being rehabilitated using a Community Development Block Grant and had received a Georgia Heritage 2000 Grant in 1996; current use is single-family dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.576764-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000620.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209516","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/sumter-county/ashby-street-shotgun-row-historic-district-97000620/"}