Cunningham-Coleman House | |
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| Nearest city | Wadley, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 32°50′44″N82°20′44″W / 32.84556°N 82.34556°W Coordinates: 32°50′44″N82°20′44″W / 32.84556°N 82.34556°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1830 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference # | 84001119 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 7, 1984 |
The Cunningham-Coleman House, in Jefferson County, Georgia near Wadley, Georgia, was built in 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It is apparently on Leaptrott Road.
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,930. The county seat is Louisville. The county was created on February 20, 1796 and named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
Wadley is a city in Jefferson County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,088 at the 2000 census. In 2010, the population count was 2,061, a decline of 1.3%.
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property.
It was deemed significant "as a fine example of a Sand Hills cottage with Greek Revival detailing in a rural setting. It is raised, for ventilation, and has a two-over-four floor plan with a very wide central hall, which was again used for ventilation as well as circulation. Greek Revival details include the columned front porch, use of pilasters to mark the front entrance, boxed cornice, and the trabeated front entrance with its sidelights and transom. The windows have small pediments on the exterior, as do those on the interior of the first floor. One unusual architectural feature found in the house is that the sidelights and transom open for ventilation and appear to be original. The stairway also contains a very unusual curved baseboard at its first turn. The house is significant in agriculture and local history as the center of a representative middle-sized, antebellum cotton plantation run by the Marshall-Daniel(s) families, and for the post-bellum role William Armstrong Cunningham of Maryland played in the local area after purchasing the farm in 1869. The nearby area became known as "Cunningham Corner (s)" for him and his family. After his death in 1892, his widow sold the farm and house in 1895 to John C. Coleman (1844-1923) of adjacent Emanuel County, who was prominent as a merchant, realtor, and public official." [2]
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. It revived the style of ancient Greek architecture, in particular the Greek temple, with varying degrees of thoroughness and consistency. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture, which had for long mainly drawn from Roman architecture. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1842.
It is located southeast of Wadley on what in 1984 was an un-numbered dirt road, about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of U.S. Route 1. [2] In 2019, the coordinates given in NRIS are for a house located on Leaptrott Road, a road which goes on to Gambrell Lake and dead-ends. [3]
U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south U.S. Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs 2,369 miles (3,813 km), from Key West, Florida north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canada–US border, making it the longest north–south road in the United States. US 1 is generally paralleled by Interstate 95 (I-95), though the former is significantly farther west (inland) between Jacksonville, Florida, and Petersburg, Virginia. The highway connects most of the major cities of the East Coast—including Miami, Jacksonville, Richmond, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston passing from the Southeastern United States to New England.
