Category Archives: Milledgeville GA

Compton-Fowler-McKnight Cottage, Circa 1815, Milledgeville

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This may have originally stood on Penitentiary Square, which is the GCSU Front Campus area today. Another owner was the McElheny family. It’s one of my favorite houses in Milledgeville and I hope to learn more about its history. Tony Brown, who grew up next door, writes: This house and the one next door to it were slaves quarters to the large plantation house known as The Cedars. Once the plantation was sold the two houses were moved beside The Cedars house.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Trippe House, Circa 1894, Milledgeville

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The Al Scotti family lived here when I was in college in the early 1990s and the house was painted light orange. I spent some good times in this house.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Roberts-Myrick-Jones House, 1890, Milledgeville

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Built for Judge Rufus Roberts by architect E. J. Alling, this is now The Antebellum Inn, a bed and breakast and event space. Mary Moore Jones recently wrote that Edward Thomas Alling built this house, as well as many others throughout central Georgia. E. T. Alling was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Jones’s late husband, Aubrey Alling Jones.  She noted: The Roberts /Hines family lived in the house for a few years then it was bought by the Myricks then in 1914 purchased by my husband’s grandfather Lodrick M. Jones for his own retirement, the house his father in law had built. Unfortunately he died in 1922 before he retired and the house passed to his wife, Isabella Alling Jones, then to his daughter Elizabeth Myrick Jones then to my husband  Aubrey Jones.  From  1914 until the mid 1990’s it was known as the Roberts/Myrick/Jones home.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

 

 

Baldwin County Courthouse, 1887

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Built by the firm of Brittain, Thompson, Bray & Brown, and located adjacent to the historic front campus of Georgia College & State University, this structure was discontinued as the courthouse after the construction of a new one in 1997.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Atkinson Hall, 1896, Milledgeville

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The oldest building on campus built by the college, Atkinson Hall was named for Coweta County legislator and future Governor William Y. Atkinson who was instrumental in the establishment of Georgia Normal & Industrial College, which was  later to be known as Georgia State College for Women, Georgia College, and finally, Georgia College & State University. I’m proud to be an alumnus.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Terrell Hall, 1908, Milledgeville

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Originally named Lamar Hall in honor of R. N. Lamar, one of the original members of the Board of Directors of Georgia State College for Women, the name was changed in 1913 because Lamar was a vocal opponent of school president Marvin Parks. The board chose to honor recently deceased Governor Joseph M. Terrell with the name change. Today, it’s considered one of the most architecturally unchanged buildings on the campus.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Unidentified Raised Cottage, Milledgeville

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This house has some features that would lead me to believe it’s of antebellum construction, but I am unsure as to its history. Some friends of mine rented here in the early 1990s and the interior was heavily modified, with lowered ceilings and drywall. There’s a house called The Chalet, at the corner of Washington and Wilkinson Streets [where this house is located] identified but not illustrated in John Linley’s Architecture of Middle Georgia: The Oconee Area. I’m not sure it’s the same corner, either, but it bears further investigation.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Placs

Joseph Stovall House, Circa 1825, Milledgeville

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The view of this house is another example of how modern intrusions such as power lines and traffic lights can compromise a structure’s integrity, albeit unintended. Located at the corner of Wilkinson and Greene Streets, this house was originally built in the Federal-Transitional style, but the later Greek Revival additions have come to define it. The thirteen columns are said to represent the thirteen original colonies. John Marlor is thought to be the architect. Other families who have owned this landmark include: O’Brien, Beecher, DeGraffenreid, Calloway, and Conn.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Thomas McCombs House, 1879, Milledgeville

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Built by Thomas Lawton McCombs, this house was occupied by his descendants, including the Hines and Holloman families, for many generations. It’s a law office today.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Campus Theatre, 1935, Milledgeville

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The Campus showed its last first-run film in 1983. Purchased by Georgia College in 2008, it has been restored and is now used for dramatic productions by the school. There is also a Barnes & Noble bookstore located inside the theatre.

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places