{"nrhp_refnum":"97001647","name":"Almand-O'Kelley-Walker House","other_names":["House of Seven Gables"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"981 Green St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Conyers","county":"Rockdale County","state":"GA","lat":33.66397130300004,"lon":-84.01571167299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-02-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Folk Victorian frame house at 981 Green Street in Conyers, Rockdale County, Georgia, built around 1870 and also known as the House of Seven Gables, with a garden shed, storage shed, chicken coop and well.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a good, very intact example of a Reconstruction-era Folk Victorian cottage that keeps much of its original exterior and interior material. It is also tied to social history because it was built as Rockdale County was formed and Conyers became county seat, and its owners were active in civic, educational and cultural life.","narrative":"This one-story Folk Victorian house at 981 Green Street in Conyers was built around 1870, reportedly by John Floyd Almand, just as Rockdale County was created and Conyers became its county seat. It has seven gables, sawn brackets, a wrap-around porch with chamfered supports, four original chimneys and six original fireplaces. Inside, the heart pine floors, 13-foot ceilings, plaster walls and chair rails survive. Three outbuildings and a well remain on the grounds, along with plantings from the 1930s and 1940s. The house was listed for its architecture, as an intact example of a Folk Victorian cottage, and for its social history. Its owners included merchant and banker John H. Almand and T. D. O'Kelley, a teacher, county education commissioner, newspaper editor and postmaster. O'Kelley's descendants, the Walker family, kept the house until 1992; one of them served as Conyers mayor from 1978 to 1997. Part of the house now operates as a bed and breakfast.","period_of_significance":"ca.1870-1947","architect_builder":"Unknown (the narrative names John Floyd Almand as the builder in 1870)","architectural_style":"Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling and, in part, as a bed and breakfast; restoration of the dining room/library and rebuilding of the east side porch were ongoing when written.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.571401-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97001647.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001647/b54ee58ba9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001647/b54ee58ba9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Tim Farley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almand-O%27Kelley-Walker_House_front_door_seen_from_Green_Street.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Farley</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:Almand-O%27Kelley-Walker_House_front_door_seen_from_Green_Street.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209421","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almand-O%27Kelley-Walker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55603710"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/rockdale-county/almand-okelley-walker-house-97001647/"}