Atlanta, GA. (December 2, 2025) – Eleven new listings were added to the Georgia Register of Historic Places, accentuating the state’s extensive variety of historic resources. 

The listings were approved at the meeting of Georgia’s National Register Review Board on October 24, 2025. This group evaluates state nominations for both the Georgia Register and the National Register of Historic Places.  Listing on the Georgia Register is a key step before submission to the National Park Service as a National Register of Historic Places listing. 

The new Georgia Register listings include: 

  • First Federal Savings & Loan Association Headquarters; Savannah, Chatham County
  • Waleska Elementary School; Waleska, Cherokee County
  • Chalk Level Historic District; Newnan, Coweta County
  • Euharlee Elementary School; Rockmart, Polk County
  • Brooks Historic District; Brooks, Fayette County
  • The Building at 220 Sunset Avenue; Atlanta, Fulton County
  • Atlanta Constitution Building; Atlanta, Fulton County
  • Granada Apartments; Atlanta, Fulton County
  • Mark Inn East; Atlanta, Fulton County
  • Milton Avenue School; Atlanta, Fulton County
  • Stewart Avenue Industrial Historic District; Atlanta, Fulton County

Nomination to the Georgia Register, and subsequently to the National Register, is part of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs' (DCA) mission to build strong, vibrant communities. These nominations encompass a diverse range of history and resource types across the state.

The Historic Preservation Division hopes sharing this information will encourage more historic property preservation through public awareness, as well as foster appreciation of its impact on our social and economic lives.

More information on the newest listings in the Georgia Register of Historic Places is below:

 

First Federal Savings and Loan Association Headquarters; 132 East Broughton Street, Savannah, Chatham County

Located in downtown Savannah, First Federal Savings and Loan Association Headquarters is a six-story, mid-20th century commercial building designed in the International Style by local architects, Levy and Kiley. The building’s modern structural and finish materials are typical of the style and complement the simplicity of the cubical and rectilinear forms of its design. The exterior is clad in smooth polished concrete panels and features a flat roof, cantilevered awnings, columns wrapped in multi-colored ceramic tile, and aluminum-framed ribbon windows encased in simple projecting frames made of cast concrete. The interior is characterized by an open lobby and mezzanine that defines the public space at street level and features original finishes of terrazzo, walnut paneling, aluminum, and the same ceramic tile found on the exterior. Open office spaces on the upper floors were converted to hotel rooms during a recent rehabilitation. First Federal Savings and Loan Association Headquarters served as the headquarters of the largest savings and loan institution in the Savannah area at the time of the building’s construction. The company was a successful and prolific Savannah savings institution and mortgage lender for nearly 50 years and served as a prominent lender during a period of major development and expansion in the city. 

The nomination is sponsored by M/A Capital Ventures – Savannah LLC, and nomination materials were prepared by Ward Architecture + Preservation.

 

Waleska Elementary School; 471 Grady Street; Waleska, Cherokee County

Waleska Elementary School is a one-story, red brick school building with an L-shaped plan comprised of a short rectangular auditorium perpendicular to the classroom wing. Waleska Elementary School is an example of a consolidated public school built to replace several smaller rural schools in northwest Cherokee County. The building was designed to maximize natural light into all rooms through the orientation of large exterior windows of classrooms. Waleska Elementary School has the key character defining features of a consolidated public school, including an L-shaped floor plan that incorporates multiple classrooms, offices, bathrooms along double-loaded corridors, and an auditorium. 

The nomination is sponsored by Waleska Venture LLC and nomination materials were prepared by Ray, Ellis & LaBrie Consulting. 

 

Chalk Level Historic District: Newnan, Coweta County

The district began in the late-19th century as an area in Newnan where African Americans were able to build homes and establish facilities during segregation. The Chalk Level Historic District is one of Newnan’s oldest documented African American communities with key landmark resources such as African American schools, churches, and federally funded, subsidized housing built during mid-20th century urban renewal efforts. Also included in the district are two cemeteries: the Eastview Cemetery and the discontiguous but historically related Farmer Street Cemetery. The district is also significant in the area of Health and Medicine for its association with Dr. John Henry Jordan (1870-1912), who built the district’s first hospital for African Americans and who had a demonstrable impact on the healthcare of the community. The Chalk Level Historic District existed as a spatial reality, where the streets and neighborhoods played a critical role in the everyday rhythms of life. The district was not simply a suburb of Newnan, it was the center of economic, social, and spiritual life, where the city’s African American residents found a sense of social cohesion.

The nomination is sponsored by the City of Newnan. Nomination materials were prepared by Chris Cole, Senior Planner, City of Newnan.

 

Euharlee Elementary School; 120 Gordon Street; Rockmart, Polk County

Euharlee Elementary School is in Northwest Georgia near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The one-story Colonial Revival-style brick school building was constructed as a consolidated public school in 1943 and with its 1957 cafeteria kitchen addition forms an overall L shape. The school is significant for its association with the education of the white elementary age students of Rockmart as the only publicly funded purpose-built elementary school in the city for white children during the historic period. Euharlee Elementary School is an important example of a consolidated public-school type with its administration offices and multiple classrooms flanking a double-loaded corridor. The addition of the cafeteria and kitchen in 1957 demonstrates the continuum of investment in the education of the students and the importance of the building to the community. 

The nomination is sponsored by the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority. Nomination materials were prepared by Ray, Ellis & LaBrie Consulting, LLC.

 

Brooks Historic District; Brooks, Fayette County 

The Brooks Historic District, roughly thirteen miles south of the county seat, includes commercial and residential resources that are situated along the railroad corridor. Although the railroad line became inactive in the mid-1980s, the railroad itself remains as a fixture of downtown Brooks. Commercial buildings are concentrated on one side of a one-block area along Main Street, stretching south from the intersection of the Highway 85 Connector and the railroad. The small commercial portion is characterized by a mixture of buildings dating to the early and mid-20th century. Most storefronts are plain in design with little detailing. Residential areas extend outward from Main Street in several directions with informal landscaping on varied lot sizes. The historic houses represent late-19th to early-20th century types and styles with some mid-20th century examples interspersed. The Brooks Historic District is a good example of a crossroads town with a railroad and is the only intact example of this type still in existence in Fayette County.

The nomination is sponsored by the City of Brooks and materials were prepared by Bishop William Watts.

 

The Building at 220 Sunset Avenue, NW; 220 Sunset Avenue, NW; Atlanta, Fulton County

Atlanta was a highly segregated city in 1949 when The Building at 220 Avenue NW was constructed in the Vine City neighborhood, one of the few areas in the city in which Black families were permitted to live. The Black-owned Whatley Brothers Construction Company built the four-unit apartment house for the Jackson family. At the time, while Atlanta’s Black residents, such as Dr. Irene Dobbs Jackson, owned property and paid taxes, they remained barred from most of the city’s public facilities. Despite the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Atlanta continued to uphold segregationist policies that civil rights activists worked to dismantle. On Friday, May 22, 1959, civil rights pioneer Dr. Irene Dobbs Jackson launched the integration of the Atlanta Public Library system as the first African American resident to be issued a library card. Library integration epitomized efforts by African Americans to deconstruct the barriers of racism subtly and incrementally in the city. After the Atlanta Journal published her name and address in the paper, Dr. Jackson and her children experienced harassment by white supremacists at this address. The building is an extant reminder of the struggle for equal access to public services by Irene Dobbs Jackson and civil rights groups in Atlanta. 

The nomination is sponsored by Westside Future Fund. Nomination materials were prepared by New South Associates.

 

Atlanta Constitution Building; 143 Alabama Street; Atlanta, Fulton County

The Atlanta Constitution Building is a five-story brick and concrete newspaper publishing building. The building was constructed in the Streamline Moderne style and completed in 1947 by the notable Atlanta architecture firm Robert & Company. In 1929, the Constitution hired Ralph McGill who ultimately became one of the most notable journalists in the history of the newspaper. Through his writings on racial justice and equality he became known as “the conscious of the South.” By 1938, he was named executive editor of general news reporting. On the first day in this new position, he mandated that the word “Negro” would always be capitalized when printed in the Constitution, facilitating a growing mutual respect between the paper and the African American population of Georgia. Named editor-in-chief in 1942, his editorial writings soon became syndicated reaching a national audience. McGill received the 1959 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for his long, courageous, and effective editorial leadership and for his distinguished editorial writing. In 1964, McGill received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his “long-time counsel of racial moderation.” Despite years of neglect, the building still reflects its Streamline Moderne aesthetic and the importance of its editor-in-chief Ralph McGill.

The nomination is sponsored by City of Atlanta, Office of the Mayor. Nomination materials were prepared by Spencer Rubino and Scott Doyle, Heritage Consulting Group. 

 

Granada Apartments; 1302 West Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Fulton County

This 1924 five-story stucco-cladded Spanish Revival-style building is one of Atlanta’s early-twentieth-century garden apartments. Designed by the short-lived architectural alliance of Barney Havis and Augustus E. Constantine, the building embodies particularly well-executed distinctive characteristics of the Spanish Revival style which was rarely employed in Atlanta. Character-defining features include the building’s U shaped-form framing a central courtyard; textured stucco exterior; ornately decorated entrances framed by relatively plain wall surfaces; arched loggia entrance with mosaic tile flooring; spiraled columns with classical capitals; carved low-relief terra cotta ornament; red clay tile gabled roofs, shaped parapets with finials; and exterior and interior cast and wrought iron ornament, including parapet grills, awning supports, balconettes, and stair rails. On the interior, characteristic double-loaded corridors organize three floors of what were originally apartments and are now hotel guest rooms. A below-grade integrated parking garage, part of the building’s original construction, today contains a bar and restaurant.

The nomination is sponsored by SRMPV Midtown LLC, and nomination materials were prepared by Heritage Consulting Group.

 

Mark Inn East; 277 Moreland Avenue SE, Atlanta, Fulton County

Mark Inn East, constructed in 1964, is a concrete block motel consisting of two three-story wings sited at an approximately 120-degree angle to one another and connected on the 3rd floor by a covered elevated walkway. Mark Inn East is significant in the area of commerce as the remarkably intact second location of Mark Inn, Inc., an Atlanta‐based motel chain that represents the nationwide trend of family‐owned motels and the evolution of the roadside hospitality industry. Mark Inn, Inc., was a locally owned and operated motel business founded in 1961 which grew into a small regional chain by the late 1970s. Of the Mark Inns, constructed between 1961 and 1966, Mark Inn East is the only one remaining. Local and family-run lodgings were still a dominant force in the automobile traveler hospitality industry at the initial construction of Atlanta’s interstates. Mark Inn, Inc. was a prolific family-owned chain that embodied this trend, even surpassing the number of locations held by larger regional and national chains for a brief period in the 1970s.

The nomination is sponsored by Stan Sugarman, and nomination materials were prepared by Ray, Ellis, and LaBrie Consulting, LLC.

 

Milton Avenue School; 202 Milton Avenue, SE; Atlanta, Fulton County

The Milton Avenue School was the first public school building in the newly annexed Chosewood Park neighborhood. This was an area where new development was occurring, and more development was anticipated. Built in 1915, as a one-story building with a basement, Milton Avenue School is an example of an urban public school. These schools were among of the first schools designed for cities and large towns in Georgia. Milton Avenue School was designed by local architects J.C. Battle and Alfredo Barili Jr. according to a “unit plan design.”  The general concept of unit plan design was becoming popular in the United States around this time and was employed in the layout of factories, multi-residential dwellings, office buildings, and schools. The approach prioritized internal spaces and their functions, particularly in a modular manner that relied increasingly on standardized and prefabricated elements and allowed for expansion with minimal disruption. Case in point, the second story containing additional classrooms was added in 1920 and in 1949, an auditorium designed by architects Poundstone, Ayers & Godwin was added. 

The nomination is sponsored by Tom Cappello. Nomination materials were prepared by Ray, Ellis & LaBrie Consulting.

 

Stewart Avenue Industrial Historic District; Atlanta, Fulton County 

Located about 1.5 miles southwest of Atlanta City Hall, this district comprises an intact collection of approximately 50 early-to-mid-20th century industrial and commercial buildings along with important transportation-related resources associated with the city’s historic development. The area is defined by utilitarian buildings constructed primarily with masonry, using “mill” or “slow-burning” methods, and later incorporating reinforced concrete and steel. These buildings, including warehouses and factories, exhibit simple, functional designs with minimal ornamentation and large windows that reflect the evolution of industrial construction techniques over time. The Stewart Avenue Industrial Historic District represents Atlanta’s small- and large-scale commercialization and industrialization and is among the most impactful 20th century industrial districts in Atlanta. It played a significant role in the transformation of Atlanta from an agrarian-based economy to a more industrial- and commercial-based economy and reflects the diversification of Atlanta’s economic base through large-scale industrial complexes such as cotton warehouses, textile mills, and printing plants, which commandeered the urban landscape into smaller, custom-built facilities, which attracted out-of-state industries to invest in the area. The district is also significant in the area of transportation for the impact and changing roles of the railroad and trucking on its industries. Atlanta relied on transportation infrastructure to spur industrial and commercial growth, and with three historic rail lines and the city naming Stewart Avenue an “Official Truck Route,” the district seamlessly transitioned from rail-dominated to truck-dominated transport and continued to thrive into the 1970s. 

The nomination is sponsored by Braden Fellman, and nomination materials were prepared by Verity Works and WLA Studio. 

 

DCA’s Historic Preservation Division programs include environmental review, grants, historic resource surveys, tax incentives, the National Register of Historic Places, and community assistance. To learn more about HPD and its mission to promote the preservation and use of historic places for a better Georgia, click here.

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