{"nrhp_refnum":"98000972","name":"Ashby Street Car Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"981 Ashby St. NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.78399559400003,"lon":-84.41685600399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-08-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one- and two-story brick trolley car maintenance building at 981 Ashby St. N.W. in northwest Atlanta, built in 1927 for the Atlanta Northern Railway line, with a 1918 oil house outbuilding on the same site.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the car barn as the surviving facility of an interurban trolley line that ran between Atlanta and Marietta. The 1927 building replaced an earlier barn from about 1904 as part of a system-wide upgrade. The period of significance runs from the barn's construction to the end of continuous interurban service under the original ownership. The 1918 oil house also contributes.","narrative":"Ashby Street Car Barn is a brick trolley maintenance building in an industrial part of northwest Atlanta. Built in 1927, it measures about 100 by 230 feet and has a two-story office loft and a one-story maintenance bay lit by a clerestory. Riveted steel trusses span roughly 75 feet, and remnants of trolley rails, wooden power cable guide boxes and hangers remain inside. A small 1918 oil house nearby, once used to cool a transformer, has been enlarged but keeps its historic brick walls. The barn replaced an earlier structure of about 1904, built by the Atlanta Northern Railway Company, which stored cars and housed equipment that stepped down interurban power for city use. The 1927 rebuilding was part of a system upgrade as buses and automobiles cut into trolley revenue. The significance period ends in 1946, when continuous interurban service under the original ownership ended. Later changes, including a c. 1950 brick infill of the front entrance, altered the building little.","period_of_significance":"1927-1946","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Warehouse","criteria":[],"status_note":"Work in progress under new ownership; rehabilitation using the tax credit program was planned. In 1997 the second floor held three loft apartments, and the oil house was used as a photographer's studio.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.195551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/98000972.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000972/9fe56742e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000972/9fe56742e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bama in ATL","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ashby_Street_Car_Barn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bama in ATL</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:Ashby_Street_Car_Barn.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000676","name":"Howell Interlocking Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/howell-interlocking-historic-district-03000676/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208064","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashby_Street_Car_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16161866"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/ashby-street-car-barn-98000972/"}