This Queen Anne cottage is one of the most unique Victorians in Eatonton.
Eatonton Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Reid-Stubbs-Tumlin House, 1896, Eatonton
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Wilkins-Cooper-Jenkins House, Circa 1817 & 1885, Eatonton
This house has an ornamented tower which is obscured by the trees on the right, but otherwise, its wonderful Victorian Gothic details are visible here. According to the National Register of Historic Places, it was built as a four-room central hallway house and expanded over the years as it passed from family to family. The Victorian triple gables and tower were added around 1885.
Eatonton Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Slade Hall, Circa 1853, Eatonton
As John Linley wrote in The Architecture of Middle Georgia: The Oconee Area, “Greek Revival architecture seems to have reached a certain perfection in [this] house.” Originally thought to have been built circa 1836, research now indicates that construction took place between 1852-1854. It was built for Daniel & Elizabeth Trippe Slade. Slade came to Eatonton from Litchfield, Connecticut, around 1828 and after a brief teaching career operated a successful mercantile business for many years. The house was sold to a local judge, named Wingfield, around the turn of the last century and his family remained there until 1975.
Eatonton Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Tunison-Paschal-Sammons House, Circa 1855, Eatonton
This house has intrigued me ever since I first saw it on the cover of John Linley’s The Architecture of Middle Georgia: The Oconee Area many years ago. Linley was able to get a better photograph, as the front yard was less overgrown at the time, but it still looks great.
It was built in the Greek Revival style by Tunis Tunison, who with James Morrison Broadfield built Temperance Hall, the first two-story brick structure in Eatonton, in 1849. Tunison lost the house to William Paschal in a sheriff’s sale around 1860. It’s unclear when the front tower was added, but some sources suggest as early as 1858; others suggest the 1870s. I’m still not even sure as to the provenance of ownership, which varies greatly in sources.
Eatonton Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Dr. Madison Monroe Holland House, 1888, Statesboro
This was built as a one-story house but was expanded by Dr. Madison Monroe Holland (1860-1914) Holland in 1908 to accommodate his medical practice. Statesboro didn’t have a hospital at the time and the house served that purpose. Holland was one of Statesboro’s first doctors and briefly owned the Statesboro Drug Store, as well.
National Register of Historic Places
Mills House, Circa 1855, Griffin
Also known as the Lewis-Mills House, this grand Greek Revival was built for the Lewis family, who came to the South from Massachusetts. Mrs. Emily W. Lewis was living in the house with her granddaughter, Lavonia Hammond, during the Civil War. Lavonia recalled that the house served as a hospital for Confederate soldiers and hosted Alexander H. Stephens, Robert Toombs, and Benjamin Harvey Hill, all good friends of her father. In 1878, Lavonia married John B. Mills and they resided in the house with Lavonia’s grandmother. When Mrs. Lewis died in 1901, John Mills purchased the house from his wife’s siblings. When Lavonia Hammond Mills died in 1936, the house passed out of the family’s hands. It had numerous owners in subsequent years and was eventually subdivided into apartments. After falling into disrepair it was restored and is now the office of a law firm.
National Register of Historic Places
Dundee Mills, Griffin
This is but one section of the large complex best remembered as Dundee Mills, which began operations in Griffin in the 1880s and was still in business into the present century.
Griffin Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Akins Feed & Seed, Griffin
Akins Feed & Seed was established by L. A. Akins in nearby Barnesville in 1940. Three of his sons joined the business in 1946, opening additional branches, including Griffin and Forsyth. The Griffin branch has moved to a newer facility and they’re still serving farmers and gardeners throughout Spalding County.
This facility is now home to Annony Studios, a movie production endeavor.
Griffin Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Old City Hall & Fire Station, 1910, Griffin
Griffin’s old combination city hall and fire department is presently being restored.
Griffin Commercial Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Historic Storefronts, Senoia
Many of the storefronts in downtown Senoia are reconstructions of earlier structures but some of the older commercial architecture, as seen above, survives.
Senoia Historic District, National Register of Historic Places