Biggs House, 912 Fifth Avenue, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA. Surveyed as HABS GA,108-COLM,34-, with a 269-word written history.
“This house is significant as one of three adjacent, shotgun-style, two-story houses built around This was one of the first houses on the block to be built by a black.”
Written record, HABS GA,108-COLM,34- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS GA,108-COLM,34- · the record runs 269 words · one of 52 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HABS GA,108-COLM,34-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
This house is significant as one of three adjacent, shotgun-style, two-story houses built around This was one of the first houses on the block to be built by a black. Description: Side hall construction on both floors. Originally built as a duplex, with a family on each floor, later modified to a living room, dining room, kitchen downstairs, and three bedrooms upstairs. This house was originally identical to two other shotguns to the north. History: This was one of three houses built about by Ethel Spencer, the daughter of William Henry Spencer, the head of Columbus' black schools, and Richard Pierce, a speculator. The house was supposedly patterned on side-hall houses Ethel Spencer had seen in New Orleans. The house was given to Alphonso Biggs in at the time of Ethel Spencer's death.
Source document Quoted word for word from HABS GA,108-COLM,34-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
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| Columbus, Georgia | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Muscogee County, Georgia | 69 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report as the survey filed it. |
The federal surveyors worked through Columbus building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle & Phenix Mills | HAER GA,108-COLM,17- | 20,282 words | |
| Water Power Development at Falls of Chattahoochee | HAER GA,108-COLM,16- | 17,132 words | |
| City Mills Company | HAER GA,108-COLM,19- | 11,159 words | |
| Bibb Company (Columbus Plant) | HAER GA,108-COLM,27- | 10,654 words | |
| Columbus Iron Works | HAER GA,108-COLM,22- | 10,527 words | |
| Fort Benning | HABS GA-2435 | 7,967 words | |
| Columbus Railroad Company | HAER GA,108-COLM,18- | 7,098 words | |
| Hydroelectric Power Development North Highlands | HAER GA,108-COLM,25- | 5,087 words | |
| Muscogee Manufacturing Company | HAER GA,108-COLM,2- | 4,852 words | |
| High Uptown Neighborhood | HABS GA,108-COLM,42- | 4,781 words | |
| Fourteenth Street Bridge | HAER GA-61 | 2,479 words | |
| Buena Vista Road Bridge | HAER GA-143 | 2,086 words | |
| Columbus Manufacturing Company | HAER GA,108-COLM,26- | 1,671 words | |
| Triangle Building | HABS GA,108-COLM,43- | 1,156 words | |
| 1636 Fourth Street (House) | HABS GA,108-COLM,41- | 1,054 words | |
| 1638 Fourth Avenue (House) | HABS GA,108-COLM,40- | 967 words | |
| Seaboard Airline Railway | HAER GA,108-COLM,15- | 785 words | |
| Georgia DOT Bridge No. 215-00001D-00936N | HAER GA,108-COLM,39- | 736 words | |
| Sol Loeb Warehouse | HAER GA,108-COLM,21- | 578 words | |
| Springer-Bize-Coffee House | HABS GA,108-COLM,37- | 410 words | |
| St. Christopher's Normal & Industrial Parish School | HABS GA,108-COLM,36- | 398 words | |
| Springer-Bize-Farley House | HABS GA,108-COLM,38- | 398 words | |
| GDOT Bridge No. 215/00101/x/00084E | HAER GA-77 | 387 words | |
| Griffin-Mott House | HABS GA,108-COLM,10- | 278 words |
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