{"nrhp_refnum":"98000815","name":"Tennille Woman's Clubhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"132 Smith St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tennille","county":"Washington County","state":"GA","lat":32.93779008300004,"lon":-82.81246145999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-07-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story pine log clubhouse at 132 Smith Street in downtown Tennille, Washington County, Georgia, built in 1922 for the local woman's club. J. A. Mills was the contractor.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent example of an early 20th-century small-town clubhouse in the rustic Craftsman style, with local materials and fine craftsmanship. It is also tied to the woman's club movement and to local civic, educational and social history, including the county's first publicly supported library, which opened in the building in 1923.","narrative":"Built in 1922, this one-story log clubhouse at 132 Smith Street in downtown Tennille was raised for the local woman's club, which began in 1914 as a sewing club. Its walls are peeled, stained pine logs with saddlebag notching, and the front portico has limestone pillars and open log construction. Inside, a large meeting room has a stone-over-brick fireplace with a log mantel hung from a log chain. The community donated money, logs, lumber, lime, cement and rock, and contractor J. A. Mills oversaw construction. The cornerstone dedicates the building to Washington County men who served in the World War. The clubhouse became a community center, hosting meetings, plays, dances and reunions, and the club used it for school and clean-up projects. In 1923 the county's first publicly supported library opened in its south room. The building is valued as a rustic Craftsman design and as a landmark of the woman's club movement, and the club still uses it.","period_of_significance":"1922-1948","architect_builder":"J.A.Mills, contractor","architectural_style":"Classification given as \"unclear\"; the significance statement describes an overall Craftsman, rustic style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a clubhouse; the form says it has had very few changes, with gas heating added around 1986 and air conditioning around 1992.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.6744-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/98000815.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000815/cc052bb19c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000815/cc052bb19c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Cynthia Jennings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_view_of_club.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Jennings</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:Front_view_of_club.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209883","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennille_Woman%27s_Clubhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58030643"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/washington-county/tennille-womans-clubhouse-98000815/"}