{"nrhp_refnum":"97000812","name":"Monticello Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by College, Eatonton, Forsyth, Hillsboro, and Washington Sts. and Funderburg, and Madison Drs.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Monticello","county":"Jasper County","state":"GA","lat":33.30199701050006,"lon":-83.68186528928584,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small-town historic district centered on the courthouse square in Monticello, the Jasper County seat in north-central Georgia, laid out in 1808 on a grid known as the Washington plan. It contains 478 contributing and 185 noncontributing resources, mostly buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant in architecture because it holds a large, intact collection of commercial, residential, governmental, institutional and industrial buildings dating from 1816 through the 1940s. It also cites commerce, community planning and development, and politics/government. The buildings show the evolution of Georgia architecture from early Piedmont settlement to the mid-20th century, though most are vernacular.","narrative":"Monticello, the Jasper County seat in Georgia's north-central Piedmont, was laid out in 1808 around a courthouse square on a grid called the Washington plan. The historic district surrounds that square and extends along the main roads leading into town, with shops, warehouses and government buildings at the center and houses radiating outward. Landmarks include the 1907 Neoclassical Revival courthouse, the 1936 post office, the 1922 Monticello High School and the 1929 Art Deco Tucker Motor Company building. Houses range from early I-houses and Greek Revival homes to Queen Anne, Craftsman and English Vernacular Revival examples, though most buildings are plain vernacular types. The district was recognized for its intact collection of buildings built between 1816 and the 1940s, which shows how Georgia architecture changed over that time, and for its role in the county's commerce, agriculture, railroad and local government history. Its period of significance runs from 1808 to 1946.","period_of_significance":"1808 - 1946","architect_builder":"Multiple, including Henry H. Jordan (architect), Lockwood Brothers (architects) and W. J. Beeland (Macon contractors) for the Jasper County Courthouse, Thomas P. Gay (local builder), Louis A. Simon (supervising architect) for the U.S. Post Office","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Tudor/English Vernacular Revival, Craftsman/Bungalow, Art Deco, and vernacular house types","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a town with commercial, residential, governmental and religious functions; the Benton Supply Company building has deteriorated, and the city plans to rehabilitate it.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.999269-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97000812.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208720","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Historic_District_(Monticello,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17022599"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/jasper-county/monticello-historic-district-97000812/"}