{"nrhp_refnum":"99000657","name":"Fortson House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1100 Fortson Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fortson","county":"Muscogee County","state":"GA","lat":32.60532692700005,"lon":-84.93603799505985,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Georgian cottage farmhouse built in 1858 in the unincorporated community of Fortson, Muscogee County, Georgia, with surviving outbuildings and historic landscaping on about 13.7 acres. Joseph Parker built it for Thomas Daniel Fortson.","why_significant":"It is significant for its Greek Revival architecture with Folk Victorian detailing, as a vernacular Georgian cottage. It also documents agricultural diversification in the early 1900s and a \"New South\" domestic landscape. The Fortson family's settlement, railroad station and post office gave the community its name.","narrative":"Built in 1858 by Joseph Parker for planter Thomas Daniel Fortson, this one-story clapboard house in Fortson, Georgia, follows the Georgian cottage plan, with a central hall and two rooms on each side. Its Greek Revival details include square Doric columns, a trabeated front door and period mantels, while decorative bargework in the eaves reflects Folk Victorian taste. Several outbuildings survive, among them a detached kitchen, dairy house, servant's house and horse barn, along with informal stone-walled landscaping and old cedar trees. The property is listed for several reasons. Its buildings show how local farming diversified in the early 1900s, when dairying and pecans supplemented cotton. Fortson family members sold land for a railroad station and ran the general store and post office, and the community took the family name. Its landscape is an example of a \"New South\" setting. The period of significance runs from 1858 to 1949, and the family has always owned the house.","period_of_significance":"1858 to 1949","architect_builder":"Parker, Joseph","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Folk Victorian","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; the house was rehabilitated, with its basement converted to living space and its rear ell altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.024546-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/99000657.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000657/e2dcc97d46-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000657/e2dcc97d46-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bobby Stokes","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fortsonhouse0001.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Stokes</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:Fortsonhouse0001.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209090","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134440276"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/muscogee-county/fortson-house-99000657/"}