217 Division Street (House), Rome

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This house is significant for its association with workers' housing built around manufacturing facilities by the factory owners in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the South. This house is also significant as an example of a double shotgun type. Description: This house is a one-storey, wood-frame building built in the double shotgun type. The house has a pressed metal roof, clapboard walls, double-hung sash windows and sits atop brick piers. Its front facade is symmetrical, with two doors and two window openings. History: In the Fairbanks Company began construction on its facility at the Division Street site. The factory was completed by and housing for workers was built that same year.

By numerous residences intended to house factory workers had been built along Division Street around the Fairbanks Company factory, as well as other factories in the area. The workers' houses have passed into ownership by nonmanufacturing enterprises, notably real estate management companies, as manufacturing/industrial workers no longer tend to live near their job sites.