{"nrhp_refnum":"97000754","name":"Sands Hill Historic District","other_names":["Elizabethtown Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Monte Sano and North View Aves., Mount Auburn St., Johns Rd., and Augusta Country Club.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Augusta","county":"Richmond County","state":"GA","lat":33.48319840900004,"lon":-82.01996625382463,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic African-American residential neighborhood in the western part of Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, next to the Summerville Historic District. It includes a historic cemetery, houses, stores, churches and a school, with a 1874 cemetery as its oldest known resource.","why_significant":"The district is argued to have statewide significance in architecture, African-American ethnic heritage, community planning and development, and landscape architecture. It preserves a wide range of house types and styles, commercial and institutional buildings, a gridiron plan with narrow lots, and swept yard and New South landscapes. Its growth was tied to Summerville's white households and to Augusta's 1913 racial zoning ordinance.","narrative":"Sand Hills is a densely settled African-American neighborhood in western Augusta, laid out on an incomplete grid with long, narrow lots. It began soon after the Civil War, when freed people settled land once owned by white Summerville families and worked as domestics and laborers for them. The district holds 335 contributing resources, including a cemetery shown on an 1874 map, shotgun houses, cottages, bungalows and larger two-story Craftsman homes. Augusta's 1913 racial zoning ordinance brought more residents, among them middle-class families who built larger houses in popular styles. Corner stores, several churches such as Cumming Grove Baptist and Rock of Ages C.M.E., and the 1936 Weed School, built with public works funds, served the community. Swept yards and tree-lined streets with uniform setbacks reflect historic landscape traditions. The district was recognized for its architecture, African-American heritage, planning and landscape, with a period of significance from 1874 to 1947.","period_of_significance":"1874-1947","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman, Folk Victorian, Minimal Traditional, and vernacular types including Georgian Cottage, Central Hall, Shotgun, Bungalow, Gabled Ell Cottage and Pyramid Cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions listed include single dwellings, general store, school, religious facility and cemetery; the neighborhood remains mostly African American.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.218929-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000754.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000754/8ee7cc2587-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000754/8ee7cc2587-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Gwringle","credit_html":"Gwringle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_Hills_Historic_District,_Mt._Auburn_Avenue.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209401","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hills_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75335801"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/richmond-county/sands-hill-historic-district-97000754/"}