This Ludowici Tile-roofed farmhouse has always been a landmark in my travels. It’s an unusual example of a common vernacular form [saddlebag]. Virginia Tarrer identified it as her home and added: …we redid it around 1976. [It] used to be at the bottom of the hill in Ideal, it was a railroad foreman’s house and was moved to this location but I have no idea what year. She notes that they purchased the home from the Clifford Hines family and that the Cannon family were also earlier owners.
I remember when it sat at the bottom of the hill in Ideal long ago. It was beside the railroad tracks. I grew up on the other side of the tracks and the creek that runs under the wooden bridge in Ideal. Our home is no longer there because the state highway rerouted the road through where our home once stood.
We bought it from the Clifford Hines family, i have no idea when it was moved from Ideal but i done know it was a railroad workers house.
The Cannon family lived in it. The house is at least 100 years old.
I always remember the house where it sits now. Always loved this house just as it stood. My husband came home to our home in Oglethorpe and said i bought a farm, wasn’t expecting this. I laid awake many a nights planning what changes we would make to it.
We added a back porch, a bathroom and two bedrooms to the right backside of the house. We raised both of our girls there and several of our grandchildren remember this house well. Lots of our memories there but other families share more memories.
When was this picture taken, what year?
Thank you again! I love this house and always look for it when I’m in that area. I believe I made this photo between 2012-2015.
That’s my sisters house and her husband’s
This is our house, we redid it around 1976
The house used to be at the bottom of the hill in Ideal, it was a railroad Forman’s house and was moved to this location but i have no idea what year!
I know several families that lived there.
Thank you for the information, Mrs. Tarrer. Do you know when it was built, earlier owners, etc? I would love to update it.