{"nrhp_refnum":"97000660","name":"Strachan House Garage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"414 1/2 Butler Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Simons Island","county":"Glynn County","state":"GA","lat":31.135437125000067,"lon":-81.39800039899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick and wood automobile garage with living quarters, built about 1925 at the corner of Butler and Georgia avenues in St. Simons Village, St. Simons Island, Georgia. It was an outbuilding of the Strachan summer estate.","why_significant":"It is the only intact historic structure left from the Frank Strachan resort compound and is a fairly rare, largely intact early automobile house. It is one of only three such garages remaining on the island and the largest and most elaborate, with Craftsman details. It is also tied to Strachan's role in the island's resort development and to the early automobile era after the causeway opened.","narrative":"Built around 1925, this two-story garage with living quarters sits at the corner of Butler and Georgia avenues on St. Simons Island. It once served the summer estate of Brunswick businessman and developer Frank Strachan, whose main house was barged to Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, in 1986. The garage is the only intact historic structure left from that compound. Its ground floor is brick in American bond, with a wood-clad upper story, a long second-floor porch on large angled brackets, and Craftsman-style eaves and rafter ends. The four garage bays were later filled with windows and French doors, and the building is now a residence. It is considered significant as a rare, relatively intact example of a large early automobile house, one of three surviving on the island and the most elaborate. It reflects the island's early automobile age, which followed the first causeway to the mainland, and it is the last building tied to Strachan's role in the island's resort development.","period_of_significance":"c.1925 - 1931","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century American movements/Bungalow-Craftsman","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Converted fully to residential use in 1978 and remodeled again in 1987; currently used as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.518506-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000660.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000660/5a0584d8ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000660/5a0584d8ba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stracham_House_Garage,_St._Simons,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stracham_House_Garage,_St._Simons,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208444","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strachan_House_Garage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38251641"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/glynn-county/strachan-house-garage-97000660/"}