Atlanta, GA. (March 11, 2026) – Georgia recently added eight new listings to the National Register of Historic Places, continuing to highlight the diversity and breadth of Georgia’s historic heritage.  

These nominations include: 

  • Chalk Level Historic District in Newnan, Coweta County 
  • Railroad Street Historic District in Fayetteville, Fayette County 
  • Banning Mills Industrial Archaeological District in Whitesburg, Carroll County 
  • Building at 220 Sunset Avenue in Atlanta Fulton County 
  • Atlanta Constitution Building in Atlanta, Fulton County 
  • Granada Apartments in Atlanta, Fulton County 
  • Mark Inn East in Atlanta, Fulton County 
  • Stewart Avenue Industrial Historic District in Atlanta, Fulton County 

 

Nomination to the National Register is part of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs' (DCA) mission to build strong, vibrant communities. These nominations encompass a range of history and resource types across the state. DCA’s Historic Preservation Division shares this information to encourage the preservation of historic properties through public awareness and recognition of the impact historic resources have on Georgia’s social and economic life. 

As of January 30, 2026, Georgia has 2,236 listings comprising 91,082 resources in the National Register of Historic Places. 

For more information on the newest listings in the National Register of Historic Places, see below: 

 

Chalk Level Historic District: Newnan, Coweta County 

The district began in the late-19th century Newnan as an area 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. 

Chalk Level Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2026. The nomination was sponsored by the City of Newnan. Nomination materials were prepared by Chris Cole, Senior Planner, and Tracy Dunnavant, Planning and Zoning Director, City of Newnan. 

 

Railroad Street Historic District: Fayetteville, Fayette County  

Fayetteville’s Railroad Street Historic District is less than a mile northeast of the Fayette County seat, straddling a portion of North Jeff Davis Drive. Originally known as Railroad Avenue, North Jeff Davis Drive was created in the late 1880s adjacent to the railroad that was installed in Fayetteville. The rail line was removed in 1939 and replaced with a grassy median. The district is locally significant due to its excellent collection of residential architecture types. Each of these architecture types represent typical styles built in Georgia cities from the end of the 19th century through the historic period. Beginning in 1893, the district is important to the city of Fayetteville as one of its earliest residential areas and as one of the most intact collections of historic houses in Fayette County.  

Railroad Street Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2026. The nomination was sponsored by the City of Fayetteville and nomination materials were prepared by Nicole Gilbert. 

 

Banning Mills Industrial Archaeological District, Whitesburg, Carroll County 

Banning Mills Industrial Archaeological District is a mill complex occupying the ridges and valleys of Snake Creek Gorge in a historically rural area of Carroll County in west Georgia. Four main industrial mills, alongside several smaller grist mills, cotton gins, and sawmills, operated at Banning between 1847 and 1971, all of which took advantage of the creek’s tremendous waterpower. Banning Mills Industrial Archaeological District is locally significant in the areas of non-Aboriginal archaeology, industry, invention, and engineering as a significant industrial complex situated on inhospitable terrain in rural west Georgia. During its operating years, the mills forged groundbreaking developments in paper production and yielded important information in the fields of industry and engineering. 

Banning Mills Industrial Archaeological District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 2025. The nomination was sponsored by Donna and Mike Holder, the owners of The Lodges at Banning Mills Retreat and Conservation Center. Nomination materials were prepared by Donna Holder, Doug Mabry, and Sarah Nadotti-Arms. 

 

Building at 220 Sunset Avenue, NW: Atlanta, Fulton County 

Atlanta was a highly segregated city in 1949 when the Building at 220 Sunset Avenue, NW was constructed. The building is in the Vine City neighborhood, one of the few areas 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. 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 incrementally deconstruct the barriers of racism 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 Dr. Irene Dobbs Jackson and civil rights groups in Atlanta.  

The Building at 220 Sunset Avenue, NW was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2026. The nomination was 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. It 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, making style choices that facilitated 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. 

Atlanta Constitution Building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 2026. The nomination was 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-clad 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 ornaments, 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. 

Granada Apartments was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 2026. The nomination was 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 third 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. 

Mark Inn East was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2026. The nomination was sponsored by Stan Sugarman, and nomination materials were prepared by Ray, Ellis, and LaBrie Consulting, LLC. 

 

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 economy to a more industrial and commercial economy.  The district reflects the diversification of Atlanta’s economic base through large-scale industrial complexes such as cotton warehouses, textile mills, and printing plants, which changed the urban landscape into smaller, custom-built facilities, attracting out-of-state investment. The district is also significant in the area of transportation for the impact 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.  

Stewart Avenue Industrial Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 2026.  The nomination was sponsored by Braden Fellman, and nomination materials were prepared by Verity Works and WLA Studio.  

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About the Historic Preservation Division  

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

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About the National Register of Historic Places  

The National Register of Historic Places is our nation’s official list of historic properties worthy of preservation. The National Register was established by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and is maintained by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Properties listed in the National Register include buildings, sites, structures, objects, and districts significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture.  

National Register-listed properties are distinguished by being documented and evaluated according to uniform standards called the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. To be eligible for listing in the National Register, generally, a property or majority of properties in a district must be 50 years old or older; retain historic integrity in location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association; and meet at least one of the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. The Georgia Register of Historic Places uses the same criteria and documentation procedures as the National Register of Historic Places. 

Georgia and National Register of Historic Places listing does not place restrictions on the use, treatment, transfer, or disposition of private property. Properties listed on the National Register are potentially eligible for state and/or federal tax incentives. Rehabilitation tax incentives are available to properties that meet the substantial rehabilitation test and meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. State tax incentives can be applied to both income producing properties and primary residences and include a credit as well as a property tax freeze.  Federal credits are available to income producing properties only.  These incentives can help offset the cost of bringing historic properties back into a state of utility. For more information, contact National Register and Survey Program Manager Stephanie Cherry-Farmer at 470-346-8550 and [email protected].