I’ve been unable to locate much information about this magnificent house but I’ve learned that after the Smith family, it was owned by the Rentz, Corker, Curry and Lovett families.
Stubbs Park-Stonewall Street Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
My great grandfather, Joseph Daniel Smith, Built this house and my grandmother lived there as a child. Griffin Lovett now lives there and his father before him. I live on Bellevue Avenue, two doors down, and get to ride by it everyday and admire it.
Charlie Garbutt
My Great Grandfather, Frank Corker, owned that house in the early 1900’s for about 20 years before moving to Atlanta in the 1920’s. My grandmother was born there in 1909. She was 16 when they moved to Atlanta. Frank Corker was the president of the First National bank (the skyscraper), owned the Corker building Downtown and was mayor of Dublin in 1893. I moved to Dublin in 2007 and bought the Captain Hardy Smith House which was built in 1873. I was born and raised in Atlanta (buckhead) and moved to dublin because of the memory of my grandmother, Myrtis Corker Bullard.
My grandfather, William Corker, grew up in this house, leaving it upon his marriage to Celeste in 1926. He told me of a blue parlor and I think a green parlor. It had a smoke house and other out buildings. His father Frank was a lawyer and banker in Dublin. I believe the family left/lost the house during the great depression. The first time I remember it was sometime in the 1970’s when it was a boarding/care facility.
My grandmother was raised in this house. She was born in 1909. Her father was Frank Corker, my great grandfather. Frank Corker’s father was Stephen A. Corker. I have written a book about his letters which detail a young lawyer who gets married and then off to fight for the South. He was Captured at Gettysburg. I have an original picture of this home if you would like me to send to you in jpeg form. Bellevue was a dirt road in the picture.
John, I’d like to know more, I may have my time line wrong for when my grandfather, William Corker, lived in this house. My father is the grandson of Frank Corker but never knew him, having been born in 1933, deceased 2019.
I just logged onto this site and did not realize I had already commented……send me an email to jchjrcpa@bellsouth.net. Frank Corker gave me his family tree file and I have a lot of info on the Corker family.
Try Griffin Lovett at the Courier Herald. His dad owned the house.
Scott Thompson most likely can give you a background on this house. He is our local historian.
My Smiths lived in Dublin GA but I don’t know if they may have owned this house. I rather doubt it.
Please someone love, protect, and share this awesome piece of history with the future generation?!
Gorgeous!