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Victorian Homes of Newnan

The late Victorian period (11870-1910) saw a resurgence of prosperity in the City of Homes. As the economy improved after the Civil War and Reconstruction, the wooden store buildings around the square were replaced by brick buildings'. The handsome new stores with their ornamental trim and frieze work made Newnan one of the more impressive small downtowns in the South.

Many houses in this period were built by a local woodworking company, the R.D. Cole Manufacturing Co., and reflected the new machine made decorations then available. Skilled artisans there made bargeboard and other trim selected from styles shown in pattern books.

Houses included in this driving tour feature a variety of towers, turrets, balconies, bay windows, wrap-around porches, columns, and arched doors typical of the Victorian period. Architectural styles include Gothic, Queen Anne, Eastlake, Second Empire and Colonial Revival. Particularly interesting are the "Painted Ladies", those houses painted in three or more colors.

 


PARKER-TAYLOR-HOCUM
186 JACKSON STREET

Built in 1897 by M. B. Parker on land that was formerly part of the C. F. Meyer fruit farm. The house carries an exterior Steamboat Gothic motif from its decorative railing at the top and bottom to the captain's wheel bargeboard and simulated wave design Note the variety of windows in the house.


MANN-TAYLOR
46 JACKSON STREET

A Steamboat Gothic built in 1904 by L. B. Mann, a prominent farmer and industrialist who founded the Newnan Hosiery Mill in 1918. The present owners purchased the house in 1977 and have done extensive remodeling and decorating. The garage has been decorated with the same trim as the house.


ATKINSON-GLOVER
19 TEMPLE AVENUE

This classic Queen Anne style was designed by architect J. W. Gotucke and built in 1895 by T. E. Atkinson, local merchant. The house is asymmetrical and is dramatized by a tower on the left and a gazebo porch on the right. Balconies, bays, arches, and dormers enliven the house. The house was sited so that the North Star stands directly over the ridgepole of the front porch roof.


MERRILL-BONE
64 COLLEGE STREET

Built in 1893 by Harrison E. Merrill, this house is distinguished b its Eastlake features. Of particular interest are the hand carved front door with its "Bird in the Hand" motif, the bird shaped brackets beneath the front porch roof, an intricately decorated turret and facade, and stained glass adorning the exterior windows and dormer. A carriage house duplicating the style of the house was added in 1986. A Painted Lady.


GLOVER-PRANGE
41 COLLEGE STREET

Built in 1883 this was originally the home of members of the Glover family. An old deed tells of the site having had the "Old Methodist Parsonage" there. The house has many interesting Victorian features, including the sunburst pediment design and corner trim with finials and fretwork. Renovated and made a Painted Lady by the present owners.


COLE-SEIB-YANCEY
42 COLLEGE STREET

Built in 1897 by Lela Herring Cole, widow of J.H. Cole. Lela married H.W. Seib, consulting engineer with A&WP Railroad in 1902. Distinguished by its simple, classic lines, both single and paired windows, boxwood hedges, spacious porch, and wrought iron fence. A typical old Southern family home, lived in by only descendants of Lela Herring to the now fifth generation.


HUGHIE-FISHER-KINDRED
37 COLLEGE STREET

This Queen Anne is a Painted Lady with five colors. Built in 1896, it has lots of decorative woodwork and a two story tower that is actually living space. In the early to mid 1900's this was a grand in-town estate with a guest house, a garage, and a gazebo shaded by giant oaks. The house had been divided into apartments and deteriorated over the years until it was renovated to its, former glory in the late 1970's.


ARNALL-NIXON-CONLAN
38 COLLEGE STREET

This house began as a story and a half saddlebag style with a detached kitchen in 1854. During the period from 1880 to 1910 a series of modifications were made and it is now a two story frame house with a columned front porch, a truly American house linking English, Greek Revival, and Prairie styles. Scenes for the TV series, "I'll FLY AWAY" were shot here.


SALBIDE-REESE-SWOPE
29 COLLEGE STREET

An Eastlake style, this house was enlarged from a small cottage in 1897 by Manuel Salbide, a local cigar manufacturer. The style features turned spindles, a tower, and different size in(] impe windows. The -Ox Eye" window to the left of the front door retains its original stained glass. A Painted Lady with eight colors.


SALBIDE-PATE
32 WESLEY STREET

This "Homestead" style house built in 1904 by Manuel Salbide is typical of vernacular houses built around the turn of the century. The house retains most of its original plaster, mantels, and millwork, and has been enhanced by a two story addition at the rear of the house with imbrication shingle trim. A Painted Lady.


ODOM-ANDERSON-HARWELL
30 WESLEY STREET

This turn of the century house has a key shaped window, a circular porch and an elaborately trimmed vestibule front door. Built in 1906 by Ysabel Salbide Odom behind the home of her father on College Street. Mrs. Odom, a teacher, also taught Sunday School, and a class at the Newnan Presbyterian Church is named in her honor.


HUDSON-LARSON
23 WESLEY STREET

Built in the 1890's, this Queen Anne style has Ionic columns on the balustrade on the front porch. Features of the house include a triple front window, dentil molding, a rug porch, and a triple window with stained glass in the front cave. A gazebo and porches with trim in keeping with the Victorian style have been added. A Painted Lady.


RAY-HUBBARD-LOUDERMILK
42 WEST WASHINGTON STREET

Built in 1872 by Lavender Ray in the Gothic Revival style. The elevation of the lot, the soaring gables, and tall windows which reach from floor to ceiling give this house a feeling of verticality. The heavy architrave on the windows and the bay window with bonnet roof lend a touch of the Italianized style.


BARRON-DOUGHTY
52 WEST WASHINGTON STREET

Built in 1894 with elaborate bargeboard and a small rug porch above the front entrance. The original Victorian style was modified somewhat in the early 1920's. The front door and triple windows with stained glass and horizontal panels are original. The triple window is repeated on the west side.


MURRAY-MEALOR-BUSSER
56 WEST WASHINGTON STREET

This Steamboat Gothic style house was built by Sam Murray along with two others beside it as speck houses in 1894. Note the bargeboard with Mr. Murray's initials (SM) and the date (1894) in he gable. Many people have lived here over the years, including high school students from the county who boarded here, and students of the local telegraphy school. In the early 1900's, each of the three rooms upstairs were rented by three different families.


SMITH-ATCHISON-MONTGOMERY
86 SPRING STREET

This high Victorian style house has a wraparound porch and decorative diagonal beading on the bargeboard trim. The front gable has a tulip design and a "Falling Water" vent. The old oaks and magnolias, along with plantings in the flower beds to complement the trim on the house, add to a lovely setting.


CAPT. JOHN SIMMS
66 LAGRANGE STREET

Built between 1870 and 1880 by Civil War Capt. John Simms as his "town house". He also owned a plantation out Stuckey Road. The stately house has a wraparound porch with four fluted Corinthian columns and pilasters. The transoms and sidelights have diamond shaped panes, which are repeated on the dormer windows


THOMAS-ASKEW-WILKINSON-EVERS
130 LAGRANGE STREET

Originally built as a much smaller house about 1850. this house was remodeled and expanded to the Victorian Queen Anne style in 1872 with the wraparound porch, balcony, and bay window. The exuberant clockwork of wooden balls, scrolls, scallops, and spindles visible on the exterior are echoed on the interior in the mantels and the grand Victorian staircase.


BOWERS-DIETZ
98 GREENVILLE STREET

This house was originally built as a one story cottage before the Civil War. James and Sarah Bartow Simms Bowers created "White Lodge" after their marriage in 1894 by adding the second story and columned portico. It is now an example of the classical revival in American architecture. The carriage house was built in 1991 by the present owner on the site of an original outbuilding.


W.G. ARNOLD HOME
102 GREENVILLE STREET

A Queen Anne style built in 1892 by William Glen Arnold for his wife, Emily Stanford Arnold. Their daughter, May Arnold (born at home in 1897 and married there in 1919) and her husband, Rufus Askew, continued to live in the house until their deaths. The front gable features a "Tree of Life" design. The frieze and balusters on the porch are an unusual dogwood pattern. The downstairs master bedroom has a 16 1/2 ft. ceiling.


DENT-MANN-TUMPERI
103 GREENVILLE STREET

Built in 1885 by James Dent on an original land lot of 202 1/2 acres. The house's exterior and interior are filled with fine trim work. Notable are the front door made of heart pine with an unusual design on the curved lower portion and the beveled glass pane. Exceptional stained glass throughout the house.


POST-GLASS-ALEXANDER
152 GREENVILLE STREET

Built in 1886 as a wedding gift the house has romantic curved bows throughout. The honorable W.A. Post, attorney from Grantville, moved his family here in 1893, The second floor burned about 1906. The house was then remodeled and was the first house in Newnan completely wired for electricity. The tall narrow windows and bay style corner windows are highlighted by the formal boxwood plantings.


PARROTT-CAMP-SOUCY
155 GREENVILLE STREET

This impressive Second Empire Victorian house was built in 1890 by Charles and Callie Parrott incorporating a story and a half Greek Revival house which had originally been built there by Judge Samuel Freeman in 1840's. In 1984 the house underwent a two and a half year restoration, which has won awards from the Georgia Trust and National Trust of Historic Preservation. A Painted Lady.


JOHN H. JORDAN
61 PINSON STREET

This house was built in 1908 using timber from the farm owned by Dr. Jordan as an in-town residence for his family. It was also intended to serve as a hospital for the black community of Newnan and Coweta County as no facility was available at that time. Queen Anne features include the different size and shape windows and turret dormer.


COLE-FREDERKING
87 EAST BROAD STREET

This house was built in 1875 by Madison Cole, who moved the house originally on the lot. Extensive renovation and expansion was done in 1892 and 1894. Examples of superior craftsmanship include the unusual curved porch railing, the recessed entry and the extensive interior woodwork specially milled by R. D. Cole Co. Note the "Ox Eye" window on the, front, the ornate chimneys on the west side with niches, and on the east side with cartouches.


COLE-SEWELL
82 EAST BROAD STREET

Built for Edward Guy and Minerva Hunter Cole in 1905. the house has both Queen Anne and Colonial Revival features. It has a moderate cross gabled roof with a wrap-around porch. The east, west and prominent front gables have triple Palladian windows with a sunburst design in the central pediment. Stained glass transom windows and carved motif are seen in the entry


PINSON-BEERS
15 ROBINSON STREET

This distinctive house with its three prominent gables was built in the 1870's. The exterior has wide framing around the eaves, windows. and doors, and custom made decorative woodwork on the pilasters. The original two story front stoop was changed in the mid 1930's to its present size across the front of the house and the porte-cochere added.


ROY COLE PLACE
18 ROBINSON STREET

Built in 1893 by Roy Cole, this Carpenter Gothic cottage is distinguished by its bowed front porch and delicately turned spindle work with a bird motif in the gable. A Painted Lady with trim in grape & turquoise.

 


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