Statewide Historic Contexts

Historic context statements provide important information and resources for preservationists, historians, planners, and the general public about topically related historic resources.

Context Reports include sections on a broad history of the topic for a particular time period; a framework for the identification of historic resource types and themes within the historical topic that contextualizes properties within the state’s broader history; and guidance on how to evaluate resources for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.

All historic context statements that have been reviewed by the HPD and conform to programmatic requirements have been added to the official collection and can be accessed at the HPD library. Some of these reviewed and approved context statements available digitally below.

Digital Context Statements

African American Resources

• Historic Black Resources
• African-American Historic Places and Culture: A Preservation Resource Guide

Agriculture (farms, barns, outbuildings, and agricultural landscapes)

• Tilling the Earth
• Barn Types in Georgia

Apartments

• Modern Apartment Complexes in Georgia, 1936-1954

Atlanta LGBTQ+ History 

• Atlanta LGBTQ+ Historic Context Statement

Cemeteries

• Statewide Cemetery Historic Context

Community planning

• Georgia Community Development and Morphology of Community Types

Downtown Development

• Atlanta Modern Downtown Development Multiple Property Form

Housing

• Atlanta Postwar Housing, 1944-1965
• Georgia's Living Places
• The Ranch House in Georgia

Schools

• Building Types for Schools in Georgia
• Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Georgia, 1868-1971
• Rosenwald Schools in Georgia, 1912-1937

Transportation

• Georgia's Railroads: Historic Context and Statewide Survey (1833-2015)

Women’s History (Regional and Local Historic Contexts)

• Atlanta Postwar Housing: 1944-1965
• Single-Family Residential Development in DeKalb County, Georgia 1945-1970