New Perry Hotel

Built in 1925 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“New Perry Hotel was a historic hotel in Perry, Georgia, located at 800 Main Street. It consisted of a three-story, 40 room Neoclassical hotel built in 1925, and a one-story, eight-room Colonial Revival motel, which was built in 1955 and enlarged in 1959 with a pool, cabana, and 9 more rooms.”
Wikipedia article New Perry Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Houston County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1925, Colonial Revival architecture, by Dennis & Dennis.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 800 Main St., Perry, 31069
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. building
Census division. Perry
When was it built? 1925
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Dennis & Dennis
National Register reference number. 04000241 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of New Perry Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 895 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 34 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	167
Equipment and vehicle use	55
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Smoking	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HOUSTON002
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	8.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HOUSTON-006
11 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Perry Hotel: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Adel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
	Perry Quarry No.2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this property

60 of 61 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 37 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 4 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	1 killed, $100,000	The Houston County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from the northeast side of Perry to Warner Robins and Bonaire. One tree fell on a vehicle parked in a driveway near Perry and a tree fell onto a home in Bonaire killing a resident of the home.
October 2010	Hail	Perry	$650,000	Several reports of quarter to golf ball-sized hail were received from the public and amateur radio operators across the central part of Houston county from about halfway between Perry and Warner Robins to Kalthleen and Bonaire. Hail was observed on both Georgia Highway 127 and Moody Road. There was also one report of nickel-sized hail from the city of Perry, which likely fell around 240 pm EDT.
February 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$75,000	The Houston County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the county from Perry to Kathleen. Several structures, including homes, were damaged by the wind and by falling trees.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$75,000	The Houston County 911 Center reported that a thunderstorm downburst or microburst caused significant damage along a one-mile long path in the southwest part of the county, beginning in the Perry area. Plate glass windows were blown out of an automobile dealership building and several street signs were blown down along with more than a half-a-dozen trees and several power lines. In addition, the Macon Telegraph reported that two 18-wheel tractor trailers and a small truck were blown over on Interstate-75 between mile markers 134 and 136. No injuries were observed.
July 2000	Lightning	Perry	$75,000	The Macon Telegraph reported that a home was completely destroyed in unincorporated Houston county. There were no injuries reported since the house was vacant at the time.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$50,000	Macon television stations reported that from 20 to 30 trees were blown down or uprooted in the southern part of the county, especially within the Longleaf Subdivision near Elko. This damage occurred from a separate thunderstorm from the one that was almost simultaneously causing extensive wind damage and penny to quarter-sized hail in the far northern portion of the county.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$50,000	An amateur radio operator reported that at least a dozen trees were down in the far western part of the county, especially around Perry. Some structural damage was reported. Trees were down on Georgia Avenue, Georgia Extension, Fourth Street, Georgia Highway 96, and U.S. Highway 41, near the high school, all in the Perry area. A home and an adjacent vehicle on Fourth Street sustained damage from a downed tree. Two business signs were also damaged on Georgia Highway 7, either side of Interstate-75 in Perry. The west bound lane of Georgia Highway 96 was blocked by a large downed oak tree and a tree was also down on Valley Drive at Interstate-75.
September 2004	Heavy Rain	Perry	$50,000	The Houston Home Journal of Perry reported that heavy rain, on the order of 4-8 inches during the evening and early morning hours, resulted in the collapse of the roof of the First Baptist Church of Perry. Two large gaping holes were left in the roof as a result of the weight of the water on the roof.
March 2009	Lightning	Perry	$25,000	The Houston County Emergency Management Director reported that a home was struck by lightning of Arena Road between Georgia Highway 129 and U.S. Highway 341. The home minor damage from the resulting fire. Lightning was also likely the culprit of a downed power line southwest of Perry near Henderson, but may also have been the result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$20,000	The public measured a wind gust of 82 mph at the intersection of Georgia Highway 127 and Moody Road, approximately one mile east-northeast of Houston Lake. The public reported that dozens of trees were down in the Kathleen area. Damage was also reported from the Warner Robins area where minor roof and siding damage was observed, a privacy fence was destroyed, and at least one vehicle was damaged by flying debris.
April 2001	Lightning	Perry	$20,000	The Warner Robbins Daily Sun Newspaper reported that lightning struck a large tree near a house on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard igniting the nearby garage on fire as well as shattering windows at the residence, a neighboring house, and several homes across the street. No injuries were reported and the fire was quickly extinguished before major damage occurred.
June 2008	Lightning	Perry	$10,000	The Houston County 911 Center reported that a couple of structures were set on fire by lightning strikes. A couple of trees were also blown down in the area.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$10,000	The public reported a roof was blown off a mobile home in Perry.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$8,000	The Houston Home Journal of Perry reported that a large tree was blown down on a house causing considerable damage to the house. The front porch collapsed and there was considerable damage to the roof.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$7,000	The Houston county 911 center reported that several trees and power lines were down in Perry while a National Weather Service cooperative observer reported that several trees were down in Warner Robins.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$7,000	The Houston County 911 center reported that numerous trees were blown down, one of which was on a house.
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$6,000	Multiple trees and power lines were downed in Perry including on Marsha Dr at Gordon St, on 3rd St near Caroll Alley and 3rd St near Parkway Dr, on Park Ave, and on Lake Joy Rd.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$5,000	Several reports of wind damage were received from the Houston County 911 Center. At least 15 trees were down from just south of Perry to the southern border of the county south of Elko. A large oak tree was also down in Kathleen.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$5,000	The Houston county 911 center reported that several power lines were blown down in downtown Perry.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$5,000	The Houston County 911 center reported that many trees were down, several on power lines.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$5,000	The Houston county 911 center reported an apparent thunderstorm microbust blew the underpinning out from under a mobile home near the intersection of GA 127 and GA 224 about a mile southwest of Perry. In addition, the roof was blown off a metal storage shed. The storm then knocked down a traffic light at the intersection of Elko Road and GA 224 just south-southwest of Perry.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$3,000	The Houston County 911 Center reported that a few trees and a few power lines were blown down, mainly in the vicinity of Elko Road.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$3,000	The Houston County Emergency Management Director reported that a tin roof was blown off a building two miles west of Perry and a few limbs were blown off trees in Perry.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,500	The Houston County 911 Center reported that 11 trees were blown down in Perry.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,500	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,000	The Houston County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down in the 100 block of Brittany Drive SE.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,000	Houston county 911 reported 15 to 20 trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds in the community of Pabst. Several reports of funnel clouds were also received.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several large tree limbs and power lines.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees, which were blocking the intersection of Georgia highway 247 and Arena Road. Power lines were also snapped in the same area.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$2,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	Emergency Manager reported a tree down on the 200 block of Frank Satterfield Rd.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	Power lines down along St. Patricks Drive.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	The Houston County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down in the Perry area.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	The Houston County 911 Center reported that a few trees were blown down, including some on Sam Nunn Boulevard.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	The Houston county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down. The Macon Telegraph reported that the down trees and tree limbs resulted in a number of power outages in the county.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	The Houston county 911 center reported that a tree was blown over on a power line. This resulted in a nearby power pole catching on fire.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	no account filed
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$500	The Houston County Emergency Manager reported two large trees down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$500	The Houston county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	The Mesonet Station GA347 I-75 at SR 7 measured a 58 mph wind gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Mesonet station ga347 i-75 at sr 7 .
March 2015	Hail	Perry	-	Amateur radio operators reported dime sized hail in Perry.
December 2014	Hail	Perry	-	The Houston County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail in Perry.
May 2009	Hail	Perry	-	Several reports of penny to nickel-sized hail were received from Macon television stations, trained spotters, and the public. The hail fell across southern Houston county from just southwest of Perry to southeast of Hayneville. This hail was caused by a separate thunderstorm occurring almost simultaneously with the thunderstorm producing extensive wind damage and penny to quarter-sized hail in the northern portion of the county.
August 2008	Funnel Cloud	Perry	-	The Houston County Emergency Management Director and a storm spotter observed funnel clouds in the southwest part of the county, southwest of Perry.
June 2007	Hail	Perry	-	The public reported penny-sized hail northeast of Perry, between Perry and Centerville, and penny to nickel-sized hail in Bonaire and just south of Bonaire. Penny-sized hail fell for up to 5 minutes around Bonaire.
June 2007	Hail	Perry	-	The Houston County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
May 2005	Hail	Perry	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2005	Hail	Perry	-	An amateur radio operator reported penny-sized hail just south of Perry on Interstate 75 at the intersection of U.S. Highway 341 or at mile marker 139.
December 2005	Hail	Perry	-	The public observed nickel-sized hail.
August 2000	Hail	Perry	-	A trained storm spotter reported dime size hail in Perry.
May 1998	Hail	Perry	-	Public and spotter reports indicated dime size hail.
June 1995	Hail	Perry	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees and powerlines down.
April 1998	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houston County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Davis-Felton Plantation	6.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000241 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houston County	All 4 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.