The house has different architectural elements, including Neoclassical and Folk Victorian. It’s located just south of Harlem. It’s a beautiful structure in an ideal setting.
Folk Victorian Farmhouse, Circa 1890, Columbia County
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Folk Victorian Cottage, Bowersville
This extraordinary vernacular Queen Anne/Folk Victorian cottage is a great example of local craftsmanship being applied to a simple central hallway form. That it has survived so largely intact is a testament to the work, in my opinion. [The photograph dates to 2015 but the house was still standing when I went through Bowersville a couple of years ago].
Bowersville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Sumner J. Smith House, 1890, Jefferson
This house is a great example of the broad architectural style known as “Folk Victorian”. It’s essentially a vernacular house in the gabled-ell or winged-gable footprint, but the Queen Anne porch posts make it Victorian. The eclectic styles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries draw upon many precedents but are a definite shift away from the high style of earlier Victorians.
Jefferson Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Folk Victorian House, 1885, Forsyth
Peavy-Robertson House, 1887, Byron
Byron Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
J. R. Allen House, 1888, Talking Rock
This nice Folk Victorian home was built circa 1888. It is a popular antique store today.
Folk Victorian Farmhouse, Orange
The Orange community, now largely forgotten and being obliterated by urban sprawl, was centered around Orange Mill, which was located about a mile or two from this house. Orange had a post office from 1837-1935.
Thanks to Mike Porter for making me a aware of the existence of Orange.
Folk Victorian House, 1901, Acworth
Almand-O’Kelley-Walker House, 1870, Conyers
This highly stylized Folk Victorian cottage was built for John Henry Almand (4 January 1846-29 July 1918) in the year of Rockdale County’s creation and the designation of Conyers as its county seat. John Henry Almand was the treasurer of the first county board of education, a county commissioner, and a founder of the Bank of Rockdale. His cousin, and the builder of the house, John Floyd Almand, lived here for several years, after John Henry Almand moved to another house “closer to town”. Thomas Dean O’ Kelley purchased the home in 1884, and his descendants, the Walkers, lived here until 1992.
National Register of Historic Places
Georgian Cottage, Circa 1890, Conyers
The overall form of this home is unmistakably Georgian Cottage, but the Folk Victorian element is quite dominant. Like many homes throughout the area, it has a yard boundary of local granite or similar stone.
Conyers Residential Historic District, National Register of Historic Places