{"nrhp_refnum":"99000899","name":"Drane-Stevens House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Church St. bet. Fourth and Fifth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buena Vista","county":"Marion County","state":"GA","lat":32.318793836000054,"lon":-84.51505522599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame house with a finished attic on Church Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Buena Vista, Marion County, Georgia, built about 1905. It has a Georgian cottage plan and Neoclassical Revival detailing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good, intact example of an early 20th-century Neoclassical Revival Georgian cottage in a small Georgia town. It also cites the unusually intact interior, with its woodwork, mantels and finishes, as evidence of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. The house was also home to several prominent local families, including the Dranes and the Stevenses.","narrative":"Built around 1905 in downtown Buena Vista, Georgia, this one-story frame house with a finished attic combines a Georgian cottage plan with Neoclassical Revival detailing. A central hall is flanked by two rooms on each side. A wrap-around porch, a porte-cochere and a pedimented entrance portico have replacement Doric columns. Inside, a dog-leg staircase, classical woodwork, pocket doors, stained glass, faux wood graining and seven wooden mantels survive. The land belonged to the Drane family, and the present house was built in front of an earlier cottage that was then dismantled. R. W. Stevens, a cotton warehouse owner, bought it in 1921, and his family kept it for decades. It was later used as a medical clinic and then rehabilitated in the 1990s as a bed and breakfast, with a rear kitchen addition. It was listed for its architecture and its well-preserved interior craftsmanship, with local significance.","period_of_significance":"c.1905","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1997 (certified rehabilitation) and in use as a bed and breakfast; the current function is listed as domestic/hotel.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.863693-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/99000899.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000899/aec440bdd6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000899/aec440bdd6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drane-Stevens_House_(NRHP)_Buena_Vista,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Drane-Stevens_House_(NRHP)_Buena_Vista,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208893","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134390532"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/marion-county/drane-stevens-house-99000899/"}