This is located across the highway from the gambrel-roof barn in the previous post. It was expanded into a gabled-ell form at some point in its history.
Tag Archives: South Georgia Vernacular Architecture
Owens Store, Circa 1900, Dooly County
This community landmark has the appearance of a gabled-ell house and has an unusual floor plan for a store. It appears to be in good overall condition.
Filed under --DOOLY COUNTY GA--
Abandoned Farmhouse, Pulaski County
This may be a tenant house or even an old commissary. It’s hard to tell in its present state. It’s just north of Finleyson.
Filed under --PULASKI COUNTY GA--
Tile House, Pulaski County
This structure was one of several on the property, including a large cistern, made of this unusual multi-colored tile. It is quite unusual and will hopefully be preserved.
Filed under --PULASKI COUNTY GA--
Gabled-Ell Farmhouse & Log Corn Crib, Dodge County
This landmark farmhouse and barn were recently exposed after a clear-cut on the old River Road. My father brought them to my attention after traveling to Eastman to a baseball game recently.
It’s a typical unadorned example of one of the most common forms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but a very nice home for its time.
I’ve observed over the years that when properties are cleared, remaining abandoned structures are often quickly demolished to make way for changing land uses.
The log barn appears to be a corn crib or other storage structure. It is already collapsing but I’m honored to be able to document it.
Filed under --DODGE COUNTY GA--
Precinct House, Pope City
You’ll have trouble finding Pope City on most maps today and it’s never really been much more than a wide spot in the road. But this populated place in northwestern Wilcox County was significant enough to have a post office from 1910-1918. This structure was likely the voting precinct or “courthouse”.
Filed under --WILCOX COUNTY GA--, Pope City GA
Pope City Baptist Church, Wilcox County
Pope City Baptist Church was established in 1903. A larger modern sanctuary on the same property has replaced this structure.
Filed under --WILCOX COUNTY GA--, Pope City GA
DeBerry Baptist Church, Coffee County
Two people reached out to me to say that the old DeBerry Baptist Church was being torn down.
There is a larger more modern facility on the property and I presume the demolition will allow further expansion of that. I will update with a history of the congregation as soon as possible.
Filed under --COFFEE COUNTY GA--
Hall-and-Parlor Tenant Farmhouse, Crisp County
This hall-and-parlor farmhouse features a so-called “preacher’s room” off the left front porch. It has been a landmark to me in my travels between Cordele and Americus for many years.
Filed under --CRISP COUNTY GA--
Purvis Farmhouse, Irwin County
This is one of the first vernacular farmhouses I ever photographed [this photo dates to 1999]. I believe it may have originally been a dogtrot, but I can’t confirm that. Rodney Gray writes: This home belonged to my grandmother Annie Purvis Gray’s brother, Richard Purvis. He had two sons who lived there and it now belongs to Glenn Purvis.
Filed under --IRWIN COUNTY GA--
