{"nrhp_refnum":"98001484","name":"Ritch-Carter-Martin House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of US 341, GA 27, and Tillman St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Odum","county":"Wayne County","state":"GA","lat":31.66399307900008,"lon":-82.02544318899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-story wood-frame house built about 1915 at the corner of U.S. Highway 341/Georgia State Route 27 and Tillman Street in Odum, Wayne County, Georgia. It was built for farmer and businessman James Colquitt Ritch by local builder Paul Edward McCall.","why_significant":"The house is a Georgian House-type residence in the Neoclassical Revival style, and it is the last surviving two-story Neoclassical Revival residence in Odum. Its full-height entry porch with a lower full-width porch uses slender one-story columns instead of the usual colossal columns, which the form calls rare. It is also significant in commerce as a boarding house from the 1930s, the last property in Odum associated with boarding houses.","narrative":"Built about 1915 on a corner lot in the railroad town of Odum, this two-story wood-frame house was commissioned by James Colquitt Ritch, a farmer and businessman, and constructed by local builder Paul Edward McCall. It follows the Georgian House plan, with a central hall and two rooms on each side, and is dressed in Neoclassical Revival style. Its full-height entry porch and lower full-width porch rest on slender, round, one-story columns with Tuscan capitals, a variation the nomination calls rare. Other details include a hipped roof, a decorative shingle pediment, and a brick pier foundation. It is the last surviving two-story Neoclassical Revival residence in Odum. From the 1930s, the owner rented upstairs rooms to teachers, highway workers, newlyweds and others, and the house worked as a boarding house into the 1970s. The telephone exchange was also kept in rear rooms from the mid-1930s to 1965. The house is recognized for its architecture and its role in local commerce.","period_of_significance":"c.1915 to 1948","architect_builder":"Paul Edward McCall builder.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Neoclassical Revival; Other/Georgian House","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as a private property still in use as a single dwelling. The form lists four contributing resources (three buildings and the landscape) and one noncontributing carport.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.568384-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/98001484.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001484/f1b186ee46-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001484/f1b186ee46-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ritch-Carter-Martin_House,_Odum,_GA_USA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</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:Ritch-Carter-Martin_House,_Odum,_GA_USA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209889","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritch%E2%80%93Carter%E2%80%93Martin_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28450540"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/wayne-county/ritch-carter-martin-house-98001484/"}