Ashland Farm

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Ashland Farm
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LocationSouth of Rossville, Georgia off GA 193
Area96 acres (39 ha)
Built1905
Architect W.T. Downing
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP reference No. 73000646 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 18, 1973

Ashland Farm in Walker County, Georgia, near Rossville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]

The property has six contributing buildings. The main house, built in 1905, situated on a hill, is a two-story brick house designed by Atlanta architect W.T. Downing. It has a monumental Classical Revival portico with 12 fluted Corinthian columns. It has 16 bays of windows across the front facade. [2]

The brick was made in St. Louis, and is rust-colored and non-porous with "a hard-fired, dull ceramic quality" that, together with careful brick placement and mortaring, achieved "an extremely smooth exterior surface." [2]

The other buildings include two brick servants' cottages, a barn, a mill, a gas house, and an open wagon shelter for a Conestoga wagon. The barn is made of brick laid in American bond. The exterior of the mill was designed by Malcom Chishom in 1929; its interior was moved from Peeler Mill on Peavine Creek near Ringgold. The gas house, later used as a smoke house, stored gas used for the lighting of the buildings. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Elizabeth Z. Macgregor (July 2, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ashland Farm". National Park Service . Retrieved February 3, 2017. with six photos from 1972