This is one of the most modern of Elberton’s historic homes, built during the peak of popularity of exotic architectural revivals. It has been restored in recent years but looks much as it would have when first built. While the style was most popular in California and Florida, there are scattered examples throughout Georgia, notably on Sea Island. One has to imagine that someone the builder of a house of this type in Elberton in the 1920s was quite progressive and knowledgeable of architectural styles of the era. I imagine it was met with quite a bit of disdain from its neighbors, as it would have been viewed as quite unconventional at the time.
Forest Avenue Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
There is a similarly-styled house on Bluff Drive in Isle of Hope (Savannah GA) that looks totally incongruous in its neighborhood of older, antebellum homes. Fortunately it sits more sideways on its lot than this one does, and it is almost at the end of the drive, so is not as noticeable.
It’s great that the original style/architecture has been preserved.