Tag Archives: Georgia Victorian Architecture

Buena Vista, 1893, Milledgeville

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This Queen Anne townhouse was built by J. B. Pound in 1893. Identifying J. B. Pound is more difficult than dating the house. There’s a J. P. Pound buried in Memory Hill with no birth or death dates given on the headstone, but I think J. B. Pound was more likely Jerome Balaam Pound (1863-1952). Pound was a native of Dooly County who went on to become a prominent newspaper publisher and hotelier. He owned the DeSoto Hotel in Savannah, as well as two hotels on Tybee Island, the Hotel Seminole in Jacksonville, and the Hotel Patten in Chattanooga. He began his work in newspapers as a printer in Macon in 1887, and by 1888 had launched a newspaper in Chattanooga. Considering his Georgia connections, having a home in Milledgeville in 1893 doesn’t seem far-fetched, though certainly bears further research. Whatever the case, his association with the property was short-lived. He spent most of his life in Knoxville and Miami Beach.

Edgar Jefferson Flemister (1858-1930) and Ida Callaway Flemister (1858-1936) purchased the home circa 1902 and it remained in the family until 1993. I believe the name “Buena Vista” was assigned the house to honor the wife of owner Malcolm McKay Flemister (1890-1960), Buena Vista Barrett Flemister (1893-1992).

Milledgeville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Southern Railway Depot, Circa 1906, Eastman

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The timber boom that led to the settlement of Eastman was facilitated in large part by the opening of the Macon & Brunswick Railroad through the area in 1869. The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad followed, before its absorption by the Southern Railway in 1894. This Victorian depot was built by the Southern Railway circa 1906* and remains one of Eastman’s most important public landmarks.

The depot, while not fully restored, is in good condition.

*- Sources vary as to date of construction. Some state it was built in 1906 and others say 1908.

Queen Anne Cottage, Circa 1900, Lumber City

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This fine Queen Anne cottage has been used as an insurance office for many years but retains its beautiful fretwork and overall appearance. Some would call it a “gingerbread” house. It’s one of the nicest surviving Victorian houses in Lumber City. It was possibly designed or built by the Scottish immigrant John Renwick, who was actively building in Lumber City at the time of its construction.

Bartow F. Powell House, Circa 1890, Albany

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This historic Queen Anne home (circa 1890-1910) is located near historic Mt. Zion Baptist Church and has been in this condition for quite some time. It appears to be in worse condition than when I first documented it five years ago. It may have a connection to the church. Much of the neighborhood in which it is located was once part of, or adjacent to, the South Albany Historic District, which has been de-listed from the National Register of Historic Places. This was traditionally one of the most historic Black neighborhoods in Albany.

Queen Anne House, Circa 1876, Shellman

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Shellman Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Queen Anne Cottage, Circa 1889, Sasser

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This little cottage is the pinnacle of Victorian style. The center gable is often associated with the earlier Gothic Revival, while the fretwork and posts hint at Carpenter Gothic. Architecturally, it’s one of the nicest houses in Sasser.

Queen Anne Cottage, Bronwood

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This might best be described as Folk Victorian, but the Queen Anne details are hard to ignore.

Queen Anne Cottage, Leslie

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This is a refined but unusually massed Queen Anne cottage. The three gables on the side and the timber framing on the front gable are the most interesting features.

Queen Anne Cottage, Leslie

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This is one of several homes in Leslie that have been dated to 1910. As is often the case, I suspect this to be a “recorded” rather than actual date. Though I don’t have more information, and nothing more than an educated guess, I would expect this more likely to date to the late 1800s. It’s a textbook example of the Queen Anne cottage style so popular in Georgia at that time.

George Franklin Webb House, 1901, Sumter

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Sumter was a small crossroads community in Sumter County, just north of Smithville; it had a post office from 1884-1954. [It may have also been known as Sumter City]. It could just as well have been known as Webb, as the Webb family was in the area by circa 1825 and John Ronaldson Webb (1822-1881) was farming 125 acres east of Muckaloochee Creek by the 1850s. He and Amanda Melvinia Williams Webb had at least thirteen children. They eventually owned and cultivated 900 acres. According to the National Register of Historic Places, Amanda divided the land between her seven living sons in 1900. They all built homes along Highway 19 and farmed them separately.

This is one of the numerous farmhouses built by the Webb brothers. I believe three are extant, including the William A., and Emory C. Webb houses. This eclectic Queen Anne was owned by George Franklin Webb (1861-1936) and Ida Varina Goynes Webb (1875-1956). Together, these resources make up the historic Webb Family Farms.

The houses and historic farmland, along with the adjacent Liberty Primtive Baptist Church, are also significant as surviving structures of the nearly forgotten Sumter community.

National Register of Historic Places