Ernest E. Hart House, 4828 West Fayetteville Road, College Park

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The Ernest E. Hart House is a good example of a side-gabled bungalow that incorporates both Neoclassical and Craftsman elements. Built in it is the second Hart family home to be located on this property. The first Hart family home, built before the Civil War, is no longer standing. The Harts were among the earliest settlers of the area. Description: Located on a knoll on the east side of West Fayetteville Road, this one-story, wood-framed house is two rooms wide and two rooms deep with a rear ell and an enclosed rear porch. The foundation consists of brick piers with concrete block infill. The house is sided with asbestos shingles. The original siding was creosote-treated, rough-sawn weatherboard with white trim. The facade is asymmetrical with a full-width recessed porch.

Neoclassical details include a fanlight and side lights at the main entrance. The fanlight contains a single piece of stained glass, and the side lights are leaded glass. The door has a single glazed panel. There is a turned balustrade between the porch piers. Craftsman details include overlapping gables on the west side of the house, square porch columns on brick piers, and two cottage windows with diamond lights. Other windows are double hung with six-over-one, three-over-one, and one-over-one glazing patterns. At one time, the windows had wood shutters painted green. The roof is side-gabled, with an overlapping gable above a slight projection on the west side of the house. There are boxed eave returns and louvered vents in the gables.

The roof is covered with diamond-patterned composition shingles. There is a central brick chimney with four flues located on the rear slope of the roof. A small brick cook stove flue is located on the roof slope of the original rear kitchen ell. All of the floors in the main part of the house are covered with wall-to-wall carpeting. Vinyl tile is used in the kitchens and in the bathroom. The owners remember that the floors are 3" or 4" tongue-and-groove heart-of-pine. Walls in the main rooms are plastered. The ceilings are tongue-and-groove beaded board, and the walls have simple crown and picture moldings. The rear bedroom (now used as the dining room) was wallpapered in This room does not have picture moldings. Baseboards are 10" high. All moldings have painted finishes.

Both the original and later kitchens have lowered ceilings and painted horizontal board paneling. All of the original doors, including pocket doors between the front bedroom and the original dining room, feature five cross panels with heavy cap trim. A ca. door is located between the living room and the front bedroom. All of the doors are painted. Most of the doors have their original hardware, including decorative escutcheons and knobs. Light fixtures in the living room and dining room are original and were installed when the house was electrified in There are corner fireplaces in each of the four main rooms. The living room fireplace has a mantel and overmantel flanked by full-height Doric columns. The three other rooms have simpler mantels without columns or overmantels.

All of these have shelves supported by ERNEST E. HART HOUSE HABS No. GA-2328 (Page 2) brackets; two have a classical wreath motif applied to the face. All fireplaces have metal inserts and are equipped with gas heaters. The house is not air-conditioned. Several changes have been made to the house. A second entrance was added east of the main entrance in to provide access for a planned separate apartment. A second kitchen was added to the back porch at the same time. In a bathroom and hall were added by further enclosing the rear porch. Asbestos shingles were added and the brick pier foundation was underpinned with cement blocks in A stairway to the attic was built in the living room in During a storm, a tree fell on the house, causing extensive damage to the front porch and roof.

A front dormer was destroyed during this incident and never rebuilt. Damage to the balustrade was repaired using the surviving balusters in a new configuration. History: The house was built in by Ernest E. Hart, the father of Lawrence Dailey, the current owner. It was built on land purchased in by John J. Hart. The original property consisted of the western halves of Land Lots 58 and 59 in the thirteenth district of what was then Fayette County, Georgia. The property consisted of acres situated along West Fayetteville Road. The house built by John Hart is no longer standing; however, several trees still exist that were planted by his children following the Civil War.

The current house was built from materials salvaged from a burned house in College Park, located between College and Main streets. It cost to build the house. Ernest Hart's brother-in-law, Ben Tankersly, constructed the chimney. A second brother-in-law, James Monroe Phillips, was the construction overseer. Hart lived in the home until her death in at the age of 92. She and many other family members are interred in nearby Flat Rock and Hart Family cemeteries.

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