{"nrhp_refnum":"99000554","name":"Daffin Park-Parkside Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Victory Dr., Waters Ave., Bee St. and 51st Street Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Savannah","county":"Chatham County","state":"GA","lat":32.04368705650006,"lon":-81.0818703147204,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, pairing Daffin Park, a Beaux Arts-style city park designed by John Nolen in 1907, with Parkside Place, an early 20th-century residential subdivision of about 20 blocks to its south.","why_significant":"Daffin Park is argued to be a rare Georgia example of a Beaux Arts-influenced \"City Beautiful\" plan, and Grayson Stadium is an outstanding, intact mid-20th-century stadium. Parkside Place is significant for its Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Tudor/English Vernacular houses. It is also an important early automobile suburb that reflects Savannah's southward growth and its efforts to provide parks.","narrative":"Daffin Park and the adjoining Parkside Place neighborhood form a historic district in southeastern Savannah. The park was designed in 1907 by landscape architect John Nolen on a symmetrical Beaux Arts plan, with a wide, tree-lined central mall, circular nodes, athletic fields, a playground and live oaks planted along its boundaries. Grayson Stadium, built in 1941 to replace an earlier municipal stadium, still hosts baseball. South of the park, the Parkside Land Company laid out Parkside Place from about 1913 on a gridiron of streets with rear service lanes, granite curbs and regularly spaced street trees. Its houses, built mainly from the 1910s to the 1940s, include Craftsman bungalows, Colonial Revival Cape Cod cottages and pared-down Tudor Revival homes. The district is recognized for landscape design, architecture and community planning, as an early automobile suburb connected to streetcar lines and planned around a major public park.","period_of_significance":"1907-1949","architect_builder":"John Nolen, landscape architect","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Daffin Park remains in recreational use, including Grayson Stadium as a minor-league baseball field, and Parkside Place remains residential; many houses have been rehabilitated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.550991-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/99000554.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000554/50279b59f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000554/50279b59f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Savannah_Daffin_Park-Parkside_Place_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_Daffin_Park-Parkside_Place_HD01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207284","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141737327"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chatham-county/daffin-park-parkside-place-historic-district-99000554/"}