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Asa Chandler House, 1840s, Elberton
The Asa Chandler House is one of the most historically important and endangered houses in Elberton, and an unusual resource to be so intact within an urban setting. Though tax digests and historic resource surveys date the house to circa 1849, it likely originated earlier as a simpler form, perhaps a dogtrot. Asa Chandler (1806-1874) […]
Folk Victorian House, Circa 1880, Elberton
This two-story gabled-ell Folk Victorian home is set back from the street on a spacious shaded lot. According to a 1975 Georgia Historic Resources survey, a parallel one-story gabled addition was added to the rear of the house circa 1890 and a similar addition on the right rear was added in 1910. Elberton Residential Historic […]
Neoclassical Revival House, Elberton
Realtor listings date this house to 1861, but it’s present appearance dates to circa 1900. If the 1861 date can be documented further, the most likely scenario is that the house was a much simpler form to begin with, possibly even one-story, but certainly a more vernacular style. Elberton Residential Historic District, National Register of […]
Josiah Freeman Auld House, Circa 1860, Elberton
The home of Josiah Freeman Auld is one of the most conspicuous landmarks in downtown Elberton and its origins are likely earlier than the generally given dates of 1860 and 1860 in real estate listings and tax digests. As the view from the sidewalk on McIntosh Street (above) illustrates, the house is set on a […]
Prairie Style House, Circa 1919, Elberton
This house is a neighbor to the Mediterranean Revival example in the previous post, and is an indication that the Forest Avenue neighborhood embraced a wide variety of architectural styles in the 1910s and 1920s, as did middle- and upper-class neighborhoods throughout the country at the time. The Prairie School is most often associated with […]
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