{"nrhp_refnum":"98000028","name":"Cuyler-Brownville Historic District","other_names":["Cuyler-Brownsville Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Anderson Ln., W. 31st St., Montgomery St., Victory Dr., Ogeechee Rd., and Hopkins St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.05976980250003,"lon":-81.10724439899015,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-02-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Community Planning and Development","Social History","Architecture","Health/Medicine","Education","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic African-American residential neighborhood in southwestern Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, developed from the late 1860s through the 1930s. It holds 980 contributing resources, mostly houses, along with corner stores, schools, churches and a hospital.","why_significant":"The district is argued to have statewide significance in African-American ethnic history, community planning, social history, architecture, health, education and commerce. It grew from the post-Civil War Dilliontown and Brownville settlements and from Peter Wiltberger Meldrim's Meldrim Row housing. It keeps a varied, intact set of homes and community institutions, including Charity Hospital and the Cuyler Street School.","narrative":"Cuyler-Brownville is a historically African-American neighborhood in southwest Savannah, laid out on a grid and built up between the late 1860s and the late 1930s. It grew from two post-Civil War communities, Dilliontown and Brownville, where former slaves settled. In the north, Peter Wiltberger Meldrim built the wood-framed Meldrim Row cottages in the 1880s to house African-American laborers, and later one- and two-story rowhouses followed. South of Kline Street, single houses in Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Neoclassical Revival and Folk Victorian styles reflect both working- and middle-class residents. The district also keeps corner stores, a 1937 gas station, churches, brick-paved streets, oak-lined blocks and Wells Park. Its community landmarks include the 1914 Cuyler Street School, the School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Florance Street School and the 1931 Charity Hospital, which trained Black nurses and served Black patients. Together these buildings document African-American education, health care, commerce and neighborhood planning in Georgia.","period_of_significance":"1867-1937","architect_builder":"Cletus W. Bergen (Charity Hospital, 1931)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate), Colonial Revival, Neo-Classical Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Largely intact historic neighborhood; Charity Hospital was damaged by fire and neglect and was being rehabilitated as a community center. Some schools now serve new community uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.761037-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/98000028.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000028/87222caec7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000028/87222caec7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Savannah_Cuyler-Brownville_HD01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</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:GA_Savannah_Cuyler-Brownville_HD01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyler%E2%80%93Brownville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135712796"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/cuyler-brownville-historic-district-98000028/"}