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WILLCOXON-ARNOLD HOUSE
1 BULLSBORO DRIVE | This impressive house was constructed of hand-made brick in 1852 by John B. Willcoxon, a lawyer, and was part of a 1200 acre plantation known as "Shadowlawn." The front and rear of the house are identical, except for the balcony styles. The original kitchen was in the adjoining south wing. The home of the Samuel Arnold family for a number of years, it is now Hillcrest Funeral Chapel. |
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SARGENT-ESTANICH HOUSE
47 JACKSON STREET | Built about 1840, this Federal style house is one of the most perfectly proportioned houses in the County. The portico with its triangular pediment is balanced against the triple windows, a vernacular interpretation of the Palladian windows found in later Georgian homes of Savannah and Charleston. Fluted pilasters matching the two story columns are an unusual refinement on so early a house. The original hand-dressed tongue and groove pine boards of random width still remain in the two-story hallway. This was the home of Harrison J. Sargent, co-founder of Willcoxon Mfg. Co. on Wahoo Creek in the western part of the County. The village there was named Sargent in his honor. |
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WELCH-PARROTT HOUSE
9 TEMPLE AVENUE | Built in 1843 by James Welch, co-founder of the Newnan Herald, on a large lot. The property was later divided and the front of this house, which originally faced Jackson Street with a cedar-lined walkway, was changed to the side facing Temple Avenue as it appears now. |
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W.B.W. DENT-SCOTT HOUSE
43 TEMPLE AVENUE | Built by William Barton Wade Dent in 1851 on the crest of an original 7 acre tract. Dent's brother, Joseph Ephriam Dent, built a similar house about the same time on College Street. The house was enlarged, the front doorway changed, and the wings added in 1905 by Congressman Dent's niece, Lillian Dent Kirby and her husband. |
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COLLEGE TEMPLE BUILDING
75 COLLEGE STREET | Originally a part of College Temple, a private school for girls from 1853 to 1889. This house was a portion of the enormous Arcade Hall and was probably the library. After being leased to the public schools for a period, the college buildings were demolished in 1904 except for two portions, which were converted to residences. The facade of this one was remodeled in 1974. |
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COLLEGE TEMPLE-SMITH HOUSE
73 COLLEGE STREET | Another portion of College Temple, this was the original entrance to the laboratory from the college green. The rear of the building is identical to the front; the unusual hexagonal roof was originally surmounted by a cupola. The laboratory is said to have housed the first printing press in a Southern college. |
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DENT-WALL HOUSE
52 TEMPLE AVENUE | Built in 1854 by Joseph Ephriam Dent, brother to W.B.W. Dent. This Greek Revival house with four large fluted Doric columns and cantilevered balcony, is set well back from the street with a terraced garden designed for the front approach to the house. The house is of the four-over-four room plan with a central hall and four exterior chimneys. Much of the original plaster and wide virgin pine flooring remain. Doors and windows have sidelights, which are a trademark of Coweta antebellum houses. Rooms are 17' X 17' in the 3 story house. Chair rails, deep baseboards, and handsome mantels with fluted pilasters enhance the interior. Early records show that on the property were a "cow house, a hog pen, a buggy shelter, and an orchard." Completely restored and a back deck added in the 1980s. |
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ARNOLD-ARNALL-SHAPIRO HOUSE
34 COLLEGE STREET | Built as a farmhouse about 1835, this house has been remodeled and enlarged several times. It was the home for over 50 years of Henry C. Arnall, president of Wahoo Mfg. Co. and director of Newnan National Bank. The columns and balcony were added to the original Plantation Plain style house about 1850. The roof was raised to accommodate 3 large rooms on the third floor in the 1870s, and some "modernizing" was done in the 1920s. The present owners removed the modernization, straightened the stairway, and opened up the large central hall. The house has been returned to its 1850's appearance and is one of the landmark houses in the Northwest Newnan Historic District. |
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CULPEPPER-MCKOON-SANDLIN HOUSE
19 WESLEY STREET | This quaint European style town house was designed by a German architect in a style unique to this area, and was built by John Culpepper. At one time it was a boarding house and then became the home and office of Dr. A. A. Barge. The formal boxwood garden was added in 1964. The present owners have added a gazebo and further landscaping. |
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BREWSTER-BARNETT HOUSE
20 WEST BROAD STREET | This house was built in the 1860s and was adapted specifically for handicapped access for Major Penn Brewster, who lost a leg in battle serving in the Confederate Army. The single story house sits low to the ground, has wide doorways, a spacious hall, and large rooms to accommodate a wheel chair. The house has remained in the Brewster family through the years. The present owners enlarged and remodeled the house in the mid 1970s in keeping with the original style. |
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STOREY-BUCHANAN-GLOVER-SUMNER HOUSE
87 LAGRANGE STREET | Built in 1830, this house was originally a cottage owned by Edward M. Storey. In 1850 he sold it to his brother-in-law, Hugh Buchanan, a distinguished judge and U.S. Congressman. The front four rooms, columns, and shutters (which were the first in Newnan and were designed by a sister in the Vermont style) were added in 1852. The house served as Gen. Joe Wheeler's headquarters during the Battle of Brown's Mill. Named "Buena Vista" by Judge Buchanan, the property was purchased by the Tom Glovers in 1936 and restored. Featured in White Columns in Georgia, by Medora Field Perkerson. |
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ORR-THORNTON HOUSE
94 LAGRANGE STREET | Originally built in the country, this house was moved to the north comer of the block in the late 19th century. It was moved again to its present location about 1905 when 1. N. Orr, a leading merchant mayor, built his elegant new columned house on that lot. Of the usual antebellum central hall design, the facade of the house has been changed and the front porch removed. |
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TERRELL-JONES-HOBBS HOUSE
167 LAGRANGE STREET | Probably the oldest standing house in the city, this house was built as a small cottage on Jefferson Street in 1828 by Joel Wingfield Terrell, one of Newnan's earliest settlers. A second floor was added in 1859 by the owner Dr. Columbus Redwine. Moved to Madison Street and "Victorianized" about 1910 by Dr. T. J. Jones. Moved again in 1981 to present location and restored by the present owners. |
|  BERRY-MERRILL-BOYD HOUSE
10 ALPINE DRIVE | An excellent example of vernacular antebellum architecture, this house was built on Jefferson Street in the 1840s by Andrew J. Berry, an original settler and successful merchant and local political leader. Moved in 1974, the house retains its original fine plaster ceiling medallions, simple mantels, wide pine floors, and many of its old hand-poured glass window panes. The house was reassembled with new chimneys and roofed with hand split oak shingles. |
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WARE-HEADLEY HOUSE
70 WOODBINE CIRCLE | Initially constructed in LaGrange, Georgia in 1850 by Captain Dan Ware, this beautiful house is typical of the fine houses built in western Georgia during that period. The house was moved to Newnan and restored in 1950 by Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ware, great-great nephew of the original owner. Restored and additions made by present owners in the 1990s. |
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STOREY-HOLLIS HOUSE
32 NIMMONS STREET | Originally the William Storey plantation house with a full brick basement built ca. 1850, this house was dismantled and brought by mule team into town about 1866 for Mrs. Mary Storey, who refused to leave her country home to move to town. The property was acquired by the Hollis family in 1939 and restored under the supervision of Henry J. Toombs, a noted authority on Southern architecture. The house is mentioned in White Columns in Georgia. |
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LEE-HACKNEY-BANKS HOUSE
123 GREENVILLE STREET | Built in 1850 by Sanders Walker Lee, who served as a Captain in the 7th Georgia Regiment in the Confederate Army. The front porch was changed to the present Victorian style during the residence of the Richard Hackneys in the 1870s. Purchased and restored in 1946 by the Banks. |
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NORTH-YOUNG-ROSENZWEIG HOUSE
141 GREENVILLE STREET | Built in 1852, one and a half stories high in Greek Revival style with nine-over-nine, floor-to-ceiling windows on the front, this house has undergone a number of sea-changes. In the 1880s it was "Victorianized" with a bay window on the right front. All Victorian touches were removed in 1918. The upper half story was rebuilt into a full second floor (making 20 rooms in the house), the 20 ft. fluted columns with Ionic-Scamozzi capitals were installed on the spacious new portico, and the original 10 ft. Doric columns were moved to the porte cochere. This was the home of Dr. Abraham Columbus North, a Confederate Army surgeon, from 1894-1910. The Young family, who owned a plantation at White Oak, purchased it in 1918 for their town house. In an extremely deteriorated condition the house was rescued in the early 1980s and painstakingly restored inside and out. |
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HACKNEY-PASSOLT-COX HOUSE
148 GREENVILLE STREET | This early cottage built ca. 1860 originally sat nearer the street but was moved back and enlarged after the turn of the century and the columns changed by the Passolts. Mr. A. A. Passolt was superintendent of the Newnan Water & Light Commission for 38 years. |
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REESE-CHEEK HOUSE
85 GREENVILLE STREET | Built in 1856 by Dr. J. T. Reese originally as a one story house. The second floor and the dormer window on the roof were added in the 1880s. The columns were added after the turn of the century. The first telephones in Newnan connected this home to Dr. Reese's drugstore downtown. The house had deteriorated over the years and at one time was scheduled to be condemned. The house has had extensive restoration and has been returned to its past splendid appearance. |
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BANKS- HOUSE
83 GREENVILLE STREET | The home of Davis Owen in the 1850s, this house was purchased by J. T. Carpenter in 1872 and was his home for 32 years. Purchased by Samuel Banks, a merchant, in 1905, who modernized the front of the house at that time. The house remained in the Banks family for 75 years and is now an excellent example of adaptive use as a place for special events - Something Special. |
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COLE-ROBERTS HOUSE
98 EAST BROAD STREET | Of the traditional story and a half design, this Greek Revival house was built ca. 1850 by Robert Duke Cole, founder of the R. D. Cole Mfg. Co., who furnished the building materials for most of the houses of this period. The exterior of the house is characterized by four Doric columns across the wide veranda and deeply shaded porches on three sides. The dormer window was added when the house was moved from the west cornet of the block to its present location in 1914. The extra tall front door, the tall windows and ceilings throughout the house, and the finely carved mantels and molding around doors and windows are distinguishing features of this house. The picket fence was added in the 1980s. |
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COWETA COUNTY COURTHOUSE | The present site of Newnan with its court square was laid out in 1828 and the first courthouse built in 1829.
During the ware Between the States that courthouse, along with other public buildings and some private homes, served as hospitals for both Northern and Southern troops. Sheds 12' x 100' to accommodate the wounded were erected around the courthouse in the shade of the chinaberry and locust trees. The courthouse did feel the fury of Federal guns when its walls were penetrated several times on July 30, 1864 by shots of the 18th Indiana Artillery attached to the calvary command of Gen. E. M. McCook, prior to the Battle of Brown's Mill.
The present building was constructed in 1904 by the R. D. Cole Co. at a cost of $58,000. James W. Golucke, well known throughout Georgia for his courthouse designs, was the architect.
The Coweta County courthouse is an excellent example of neo-Greek Revival architecture, and features a copper covered dome to match the cornices, pediments, and railings that are made of stamped and formed copper. Rising more than 100 feet above the court square, the dome has clocks on all four sides.
Monuments and markers placed around the courthouse honor the Confederacy and note the role Newnan and Coweta County played during that historic period.
The courthouse has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was completely restored in 1989. |
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