{"nrhp_refnum":"97000621","name":"West End Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Bounded by US 20, Lee, White, and Langhorn Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.737356688000034,"lon":-84.42170700599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-02-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential and commercial historic district in southwest Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, centered on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard. It contains 795 contributing resources, mostly houses built from about 1870 into the 1940s.","why_significant":"The nomination presents West End as a neighborhood closely tied to Atlanta's growth, showing both planned and unplanned suburbanization shaped by topography, rail and trolley lines, politics and race. It retains a very intact mix of Victorian, Craftsman and bungalow houses, churches, schools, a commercial core and parks. It also includes the Joel Chandler Harris House (the Wren's Nest), a National Historic Landmark.","narrative":"West End is a large neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, laid out along Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, an old east-west route that follows an early Indian trail. Most of its buildings are houses from about 1870 to the 1940s, including Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Colonial Revival and Craftsman designs, with the Craftsman bungalow the most common type. Churches, a Romanesque Revival high school from 1923, a Craftsman fire station and blocks of attached brick shops add to the mix. Two house museums, the 1867 Wren's Nest and the 1859 Hammonds House, are among the oldest buildings. The district developed around a crossroads tavern called Whitehall, and streetcar lines later guided where homes and businesses were built. Large estates were subdivided for middle-class housing, and the area became part of Atlanta in 1894. Parks, wooded back yards, tree-lined streets and West View Cemetery shape its landscape. The district was recognized for its connection to Atlanta's growth and its intact historic character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Romanesque), Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Art Deco, Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian, American Foursquare, 20th Century Commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a neighborhood with houses, shops, churches, a school, museums and parks; the former Joseph E. Brown High School now operates as Cascade Elementary School.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.277818-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000621.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000621/b1b56a6224-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000621/b1b56a6224-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Lain Shakespeare","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wrens_nest_joel_chandler_harris_home.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Lain Shakespeare</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:Wrens_nest_joel_chandler_harris_home.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000198","name":"Oakland City Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/oakland-city-historic-district-03000198/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208392","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End,_Atlanta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14686945"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/west-end-historic-district-97000621/"}