J.C. Bankston Rock House, 901 Industrial Drive Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Marietta

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The address for this building is 901 Industrial Drive, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, City of Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia The building is located at latitude: longitude: This point was obtained on January 19, using Google Earth (Version There is no restriction on its release to the public. Date of Construction: Present Owner/Occupant: U.S. Air Force, Civil Engineering Group

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The Bankston Rock House is one of the few surviving buildings from the pre-World War II period of development at what is now Dobbins Air Reserve Base. The Rock House is significant in architecture as an unusual example of the use of stone to build a house in Georgia; an exceptional example of stone masonry construction; an example of 20th-century English Vernacular Revival architecture; and a century example of the adaptation of rural southern building traditions. Historian(s): Charles Baxter, AIA, LEED AP (Documentation) - Croft & Associates Brian Grogan (Photographer) Report Completion Date: November 23,

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This submission includes a short form HABS Historical Report undertaken by Croft & Associates under contract with Dobbins Air Reserve Base at the request of Georgia Department of Natural Resources to document the historic context and existing conditions of this site prior to interior renovation and repair projects to make the building more suitable for its present mission. The project was overseen by Jeff Morgan, PE (Croft & Associates). The project historian was Chuck Baxter, AIA, LEED AP (Croft & Associates); he was assisted by Jamie BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 2) Daniel, Senior Project Coordinator (Croft & Associates). The field photographer was Brian Grogan. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1.

Date of Erection: Construction was started in and completed in 2. Architect: James Clifford Bankston 3. Original & Subsequent Owners, Occupants & Uses: a. The original house was property of Jesse Clifford Bankston and his wife, Blanche Howard, who lived in the home with their 2 sons, James Clifford, and Harold Bankston. b. In the U.S. Army took possession of the property in order to establish the new Army airfield and Bell Bomber plant. Initially, the Bankston Rock House was converted into temporary quarters for servicemen during World War II and then later as offices for Dobbins Air Reserve Base Civil Engineers. 4. Builder, Contractor & Suppliers: The house was built by Bankston Sr. and his 2 sons, James Clifford, Jr. and Harold Bankston. 5.

Original Plans & Construction: The majority of the information in this report, including origins for the original plans and building construction, was derived from the October 28, National Register of Historic Places submission form and supplementary documents. Other sources are cited at the bottom of the subsequent pages as well and a full list of documented sources is available in Part III. Sources of Information. The Bankston Rock House is a one-story English Vernacular Revival (Tudor Revival) style house originally built with 4 equally sized 12 -0 x 12 -0 rooms, a front chimney, a cross- gable roof, and arched openings. The Bankston Rock House is a combination of stone & wood frame construction with a crawlspace and attic. It has an asphalt shingle hip roof and stone veneer.

The interior and exterior doors are wood, and the flooring is composed of hardwoods. The ceiling is composed of a mixture of wood planks and gypsum board. The windows are wood, double paned units, with some fixed and some operable. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 3) 6. Alterations & Additions: a. In Bankston, Sr. added a bathroom on the enclosed shed porch that has since been removed. b. In the a bathroom was added between the kitchen and back bedroom. c.

In the building was renovated, restoring interior and exterior architectural features including the exterior stonework, doors, windows, fireplace, floors, and ceilings at a cost of about In addition to modernizing existing office space, the side and back porches were enclosed to created more usable space and a second restroom was added. d. At present, the interior has been modified to accommodate its present purpose for the military; however, original wood floors and ceilings still remain in portions of the structure. In addition, the present interior layout remains close to that of the original home.

In addition to a bathroom, a screened side porch, and an enclosed rear shed porch - the front door opens directly into the living room, which has a fieldstone fireplace, a door that leads to the side bedroom, a door that leads to the kitchen, and a door that leads out to the side porch. Behind the living room is the kitchen, and the other two rooms are bedrooms. B. Historical Background & Context:1 The Bankston Rock House is located in Cobb County, which was created in from land held by the Native American Cherokee Nation. The county was one of the last frontiers" in Georgia to be settled.

Devastated during the Civil War, Cobb County was a slow-growing agrarian county until With the opening of the Bell Bomber plant, located a short distance from the Bankston Rock House, the county came into the forefront of 20th-century industry.2 1 The primary source of the included historical background & context was the National Register Nomination written by Maurie Van Buren. See the nomination form for additional source information. 2 Van Buren, Maurie. Bankston Rock House." National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form. Historic Preservation Consulting, Avondale Estates, October 28, Section 8, Page 6. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2441 (Page 4) The Bankston Rock House was part of a rural farming community located 2 miles southeast of Marietta, the county seat of Cobb County. Its owner was Jesse Clifford Bankston born in Pike County, Georgia. He was an engineer for the Nashville, Chattanooga, St. Louis Railroad. Bankston and his two sons, James Clifford (called and Harold had lived in 21 different places by It was at this time that the senior Bankston married his third wife Blanche Howard, settled down, and built a place to call "home . They only lived in this new home from to when the United States Army took the land in order to establish an Army airfield.

The Bankston Rock House is one of the few buildings remaining from the rural community that preceded the establishment of the Army airfield and the Bell Bomber plant.3 Construction began on the Bankston Rock House in less than one year after Bankston married Blanche Howard. Bankston purchased 1 acre of land from Clarence Howard in order to build a home just 100 away from his wife's family home. In February the elder Bankston asked his son, Bankston, to design a rock house which they would build on the land he had recently purchased from his wife's family. Without any prior architectural experience, 23-year-old Bankston, Jr. designed the 1-story, Bankston Rock House with four 12 -0 x 12 -0 rooms, a front chimney, a cross-gable roof, and arched openings.

These features were characteristic of the English Vernacular Revival (Tudor Revival) style, which was popular in Georgia and throughout America in the post-depression years of the and early The actual inspiration for the unusual stone construction was a rock bungalow located at 92 Whitlock Avenue in nearby Marietta. The fieldstone of this bungalow was laid into the cement so that no mortar was visible between the joints. Bankston showed the house to his son and told him this was the way he wanted his new home to be built. Since they had never constructed a stone house before, the Bankstons devised their own method of construction.

After the hollow-core tile walls were built, a small section of wall, starting at the bottom, was covered with a thick coat of cement, and the fieldstones were pressed into the wet cement mixture. Fieldstones for the Bankston Rock House were hauled in a two-horse wagon from Joe Thomas' farm, which was located near what is now the entrance to Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Thomas was happy to sell the stones he had removed from his fields and piled up over the years.5 3 Ibid, Pages 4 Ibid, Page 7. 5 Ibid, Pages BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 5) Mr. Bankston wanted his house to have structural walls made of hollow-core brick tile. He had learned about this new building material while working as an engineer on the Nashville, Chattanooga, St. Louis Railroad.

The tiles were made in Kingston, Georgia, which was a spur on the local" from Atlanta to Cartersville. Measuring 4" x 4" x 8", the tiles were twice the size of regular brick. The hollow tiles were fireproof and were corrugated so that plaster could be applied directly to the wall without laths: in addition, they provided good insulation. Although coal furnaces were available at that time, the fireplace in the living room was the only form of heating in the Bankston Rock House while Bankston lived there.6 For the floors and ceilings, Bankston, Sr. used 12 lengths of tupelo gum wood. Each board in the wood floors and ceilings ran the full length of the room, and there were no knots in the boards. The wood was ordered from his brother Ed Bankston's sawmill in Pike County.

From 36, when Bankston was laid off from the railroad as a result of the Great Depression, he and his sons worked for his brother at the sawmill. It was here that Bankston learned the merits of tupelo gum. This tree that grows in the swamps of the southeast has a light-colored soft wood that is resistant to rot.7 When the Bankston Rock House was about 80 percent constructed in November J.C Bankston, Jr. got a job at the Salem Steel Company in North Carolina. The senior Bankston and his younger son Harold finished construction of the house in the spring of At first the Bankston Rock House was designed without a bathroom as the family intended to use an outhouse.

Shortly after the house was constructed, however, sometime before the summer of Bankston added a small bathroom on the rear shed porch.8 When construction of the Bankston Rock House began, the rural farm community did not have electricity, but it was available by the time the house was finished. The house was the first in the community to have a telephone. Bankston even paid for the construction of one mile of telephone poles and wires so that in case the railroad needed him to work, they could call him. In addition to the outhouse, a well and a storage building were originally built on the property, none of which remain on the site.9 After his home was built, Bankston sold a half-acre of his one-acre plot to his longtime friend 6 Ibid, Page 8. 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid. 9 Ibid, Page 9.

BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 6) from the railroad, Joe Head, who married Josephine Howard, Blanche Bankston's sister. The Heads constructed a one-story frame bungalow approximately 60 to the west of Bankston's home. Three family houses sat close to each other along the rural dirt road. Approximately 100 to the west of the Howard homeplace was the Bankston Rock House, 60 west of that was Joe Head's house. In leisure times, family and friends would gather under the shade of the pecan trees, set up a table on the swept dirt yard, and play cards.

William Howard, who died in at the age of 94, lived his later years in the J.C Bankston Rock House with his daughter and son-in-law.10 Agrarian Cobb County was slow to rebound from the Great Depression of the When Bankston constructed his home, the nearby city of Marietta was a small slow-growing town with a population of less than It was connected to the city of Atlanta, 15 miles to the south, by a trolley. In the Atlanta, with a population close to was a rapidly growing metropolis with a bustling economy. Atlanta was also emerging as an aviation center. In Atlanta purchased Candler Field with plans to create the nation's first air passenger terminal.

The airfield later became Hartsfield International Airport.11 About the same time Bankston was laying the foundation for his home, a few visionary men were laying the foundation for Marietta and Cobb County's rapid emergence into the mainstream of 20th-century industry. During the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Lucius D. Clay, a Marietta native, was working in Washington, DC. as the Assistant to the Administrator of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and Secretary of the Airport Approval Board. With World War II on the horizon, Clay was charged with identifying sites for 200 airfields in southern states.

In the late General Clay advised Marietta Mayor Blair and County Commissioner James Carmichael to establish a local airfield and connect it to Atlanta by a highway. In June Cobb County purchased 600 acres of land near the Bankston Rock House to establish Rickenbacker Field. Access to the new airfield was provided by Highway 41, Georgia's first four-lane, which connected Marietta to Atlanta.12 On December 7, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the United States entered World War II. Shortly thereafter, the Army Corps of Engineers took over the Cobb County airfield, and Bell Aircraft Corporation contracted with the Federal Government to manufacture the Bell Bomber in Marietta.

One of four sites selected for the assembly of the bombers, the Marietta plant opened in It became the largest aircraft plant under one roof. Local 10 Ibid. 11 Ibid. 12 Ibid, Page BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 7) people were trained to assemble the bombers, and during the war the plant employed people. The Cobb County Army Airfield was officially established on June 10, (later renamed Marietta Army Airfield).

The government had acquired over acres of land for use by the Bell Aircraft Corporation as a Super Fortress assembly site and as an army airfield.13 Bankston and his wife Blanche had lived in their house only three years before their land was acquired by the Federal Government on June 27, Throughout the rest of his life, Bankston was bitter about the military takeover of his home. Although the Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed many of the rural structures found on the land they acquired, a few buildings were retained and used. The antebellum Gardner House was used as an officers' club, and the Bankston Rock House was converted into temporary quarters for servicemen during World War II.14 After the war, the airfield's mission turned to training Air Force Reservists.

On June 13, it was renamed Marietta Air Force Base, which grew to become one of the largest Air Force Reserve training bases in the world. Marietta Air Force Base was renamed Dobbins Air Force Base on February 6, in honor of Captain Charles Dobbins of Marietta, Georgia. Dobbins was killed on July 11, when his aircraft was accidentally shot down by the U.S. Navy over the Mediterranean Sea on its return from a combat mission off the coast of Sicily. Reserve training has continued to be the base's mission since the end of World War II. In it was renamed Dobbins Air Reserve Base.15 The Bell Bomber plant closed after World War II.

With the advent of the Korean conflict, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation of Burbank, California, took over the Bell plant in January Since that time Lockheed has been the largest employer in the county. Bankston, who designed and built his father's home, worked at Lockheed for over 25 years, from to Lockheed utilized the old Bell plant for the assembly of the the and the aircraft. The international sale of aircraft has focused worldwide attention on the Lockheed plant.16 Today the Bankston Rock House is one of the few surviving buildings from the pre-World War II period of development at what is now Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Over the years, the 13 Ibid, Page 10. 14 Ibid. 15 Ibid. 16 Ibid, Page 11. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2441 (Page 8) Bankston Rock House has been used as guest quarters and as an office for the Base Civil Engineers. Today, surrounded by construction projects, the Bankston Rock House stands as a rare example of masonry stone construction. It is a survivor of the dramatic social and economic changes that took place in this southern community.17 The Bankston Rock House is both a local interpretation of a national architectural movement and a 20th-century adaptation of established local building traditions.

The Bankston Rock House is an interpretation of the English Vernacular Revival (Tudor Revival) style, which enjoyed widespread popularity in Georgia and throughout America in the post-depression years of the and early Although he used no architect's plans or designs from books, Bankston, Jr. nevertheless designed the Bankston Rock House in a Historic Revival style popular at the time. The front exterior chimney, gabled projecting entrance, arched openings, and picturesque cross-gable roof line are typical features of the English Vernacular Revival (Tudor Revival) style. Even the use of masonry as an exterior material evokes America's romantic version of England's Cotswold cottages.18 There are relatively few historic stone houses in Georgia. Only two others are found in Cobb County.

Both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The John W. Rice Summer Cottage, located above Nickajack Creek near the Concord Woolen Mills, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in It is a turn- of-the-century residence built entirely of fieldstones that are held in place by thick mortar joints. The rock house at 92 Whitlock Avenue in Marietta, constructed in the late or early illustrates the use of invisible mortar between the joints.

This construction technique was made possible by use of 20th-century cement and concrete mortar products that quickly set hard.19 Although other examples may exist, the exceptional stone masonry construction whereby fieldstones are laid without visible mortar joints has been documented in only two other rock houses in Georgia: the Walter Jones Rock House, which was built as a rustic retreat in Walton County in the (nominated to the National Register in and the rock house at 92 Whitlock Avenue in Marietta. Historically, masonry construction relies on thick sand and lime mortar joints to hold stones together in a wall.

With the increasing use of fast-drying hard- setting cement since the first decade of the 2Oth century, it became possible to develop a new type of masonry construction in which unshaped stones are set into the cement in order to create a naturalistic stone veneer. This type of rustic stone- veneer and cement construction 17 Ibid. 18 Ibid, Page 12. 19 Ibid, Page 11. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 9) was promoted as early as in Gustav Stickley's The Craftsman magazine, which featured illustrations of Greene and Greene bungalows in California with cobblestone chimneys and foundations.20 A regional example of this type of stone construction on a grand scale is Grove Park Inn near Asheville, North Carolina. Built in the Inn's walls are built with boulders from nearby hillsides.

These are set into reinforced concrete so that mortar joints are not visible. The design of Grove Park Inn was inspired by the mountain lodges that Mr. E.W. Grove had seen in Yellowstone Park.21 America's national parks and mountain resorts popularized the naturalism movement in architecture, which used indigenous materials, such as fieldstone and logs, in a simple straightforward way. The Arts and Crafts movement in America also promoted the use of fieldstone as a construction material for single-family dwellings. Gustav Stickley's The Craftsman magazine published articles such as Split Fieldstone as a Valuable Aid in Building Attractive Bungalows .

Another article, Effective Use of Cobblestone as a Link Between Rock House and Landscape , published in illustrated a country rock house in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with a first story made of field rubble set in cement. Cement Rock House Showing Intersecting Roof Treatment and Roomy Homelike Interior", published in also promoted cement as a construction material. A Greene and Greene bungalow on the Pacific coast was featured in another article entitled A Mountain Bungalow Whose Appearance of Crude Construction is the Result of Skillful Design . Chimneys and foundations of rough stone set into cement were illustrated.

In addition to promoting cement as a building material, the Arts and Crafts movement also promoted the idea of building your own home.22 The Bankston Rock House is a well-documented 20th-century example of the continuation of rural southern building traditions with regard to site location, use of local materials, and construction by family members. Its location, just 100 away from the Howard homeplace (no longer extant), represents the continuation of a well-established rural southern community development pattern, that of a scattered rural kinship community. The Bankston Rock House combined the latest building technology with traditional building materials. For the structure of the house, Bankston used hollow-core brick tiles, an up-to-date building technology.

For the exterior veneer, Bankston chose a more traditional material, fieldstone obtained from the nearby Joe Thomas farm. The Bankston Rock House, designed and constructed exclusively by 20 Ibid. 21 Ibid, Page 12. 22 Ibid. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 10) Bankston family members, is a 20th-century continuation of the pioneer building tradition of a family constructing its own home.23 23 Ibid, Page 14. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 11) PART II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION A. General Statement 1.

Architectural Character: The Bankston Rock House is an exceptional example of the use of stone masonry construction in a rural dwelling built in the late The Rock House is significant in architecture as an unusual example of the use of stone to build a house in Georgia; an exceptional example of stone masonry construction; an example of 20th-century Historical Revival architecture, and a 20th-century example of the adaptation of rural southern building traditions. 2. Condition of Fabric: The original historic fabric consists of the building foundations, structural members, exterior walls, and exterior stone veneer. Other building system components have been replaced since the original construction. The building fabric is in generally in good condition, given the components respective ages.

B. Description of the Exterior: 1. Overall dimensions: The one-story house, excluding porches and fireplace, is a 30 -0 x 30 - 0 square plan. Two porches are attached to the building, one of which is original and one which was added. The original porch is attached to the west facade of the house and is in line with the south facade of the building. It is visually a part of the original house and completes the front facade. The other porch is on the rear of the building. It is not consistent with the rock appearance of the original house, but its roof is consistent with the look of the original structure. 2. Foundations: The foundations of the house consist of concrete exterior walls and concrete piers to support the floor joists of the interior of the house.

The crawl space that these are located is half-height and has a dirt floor. 3. Walls: The exterior walls are of field stone with unfilled joints between adjacent stones. The stone is adhered with mortar to the structural walls (hollow-core brick tile) of the house. The exterior stone is in good condition. Windows, doors, and a chimney accentuate the exterior. 4. Structural System, Framing: Exterior walls of the house are load bearing (hollow-core brick tile behind the stone). Wood framing supports the roof, the floors, and interior walls. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 12) 5. Porches, Stoops, Balconies, Porticoes, Bulkheads: The main entry of the house is accessed by a poured-in-place concrete stair. The main fa ade for the house is south-facing.

The west-facing porch is part of the original house but was enclosed with windows in its arched openings at some point during its history. The rear (north) porch was added between and is wood framed with French doors and windows enclosing openings between the structural members. This porch is accessed from on grade and provides the accessible entrance to the structure. 6. Chimneys: The exterior front chimney is of identical construction to the main portion of the house and is on the south facade (front) of the house adjacent to the main entry. The fireplace was the only heat for the structure when it was originally built. 7. Openings: a. Doorways and Doors: The main entry door is a wood door, painted white, that is approximately one third glass.

This door is one of the few elements in the building that has an Arts and Crafts style with wood dentils. It is set back into the opening to provide some shelter from the elements. The north porch on the rear of the house has wood French doors with fiberglass trim. b. Windows and Shutters: Windows, with the exception of those on the two porches, are painted wood double-hung windows and have three-over-one lites and use granite lintels. Originally there was no fenestration in the arched openings of the western porch. However, at some point the openings were enclosed with fixed, wood windows. Later, the wood windows were replaced with the current fixed, twenty-lite aluminum frame windows.

The northern porch has full height fixed, single-lite aluminum windows with single-lite aluminum transoms. 8. Roof: a. Shape, Covering: The roof in the east-west direction has a gable at each end with a hip roof occurring in the north-south direction. There is also a small gable over the front entry door on the south facade. Roofing is asphalt shingles. b. Cornice, Eaves: The cornice is painted wood with a standard overhang and no decorative molding. A gutter and downspout system is used on the north portion of the structure (all of north facade and portions of both the east & west facades). The south BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 13) facade has no gutters or downspouts. C. Description of the Interior: 1.

Floor plans: The present layout has enclosed both porches, with the western porch and the northern porch both being used for office space. The original occupiable house as three main rooms. The northern most of these rooms contains office space, two restrooms and a break counter. The remaining two rooms are a reception area for those coming to the building for its present use and a storage area. 2. Flooring: Flooring is natural stained wood in the original occupiable building. The flooring switches to a green low pile carpet on both porches. A similar carpet is used for runners on some of the wood floor. The restrooms have a green sheet vinyl floor that is in a tile pattern with faux joints. 3. Wall and Ceiling Finish: The vast majority of the ceilings are wood tongue and groove.

Some of the wood ceiling is natural stained wood with the remainder being a painted tongue and groove wood ceiling (painted white). A gypsum board ceiling is also used at the north porch; and in limited areas in the remainder of the building (over break counter, restrooms, etc.) 4. Fireplaces: The hearth of the fireplace is classic brick red, mortared clay tile in an irregular pattern that is flush with the adjacent wood flooring. 5. Openings: a. Doorways and Doors: See exterior doors for description of exterior doors. Interior doors, other than those that go to the western porch (which were originally exterior doors), are stained wood French doors with glazing and muntins which divide the glazing into fifteen individual lites. The restroom doors are horizontal panel wood- stained doors.

b. Windows: All windows were all originally exterior. See exterior windows for a description. Windows to the western porch were originally exterior windows but now they occur between interior spaces. 6. Decorative Hardware: All door hardware appears to be modern with none of the original door hardware remaining. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 14) 7. Mechanical Equipment: a. Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation: The building originally did not have air conditioning, ventilation was through open windows and heat was from the fireplace. The existing HVAC is a modern addition to the building. b. Lighting: None of the original lighting remains. All lighting appears to be modern replacements (no LED) of original fixtures with no regards to historical appearance.

Ceiling fans with light kits occur in most interior rooms. c. Plumbing: One restroom may be in the original location, while the other restroom was added. Neither restroom has any original fixtures or original plumbing systems remaining. 8. Original Furnishings: None of the present furniture is original to the building. D. Site: Historic Landscape Design & Changes: The original property included the Bankston Rock House and 2 mature trees in the front yard, with a narrow buffer to the north, east, and west of the Rock House. The Rock House originally sat on a 0.6 acre parcel.

However, the Bankston Rock House historic landscape no longer exists due to the land and structure being acquired by the Army Corps of Engineers three years after it was completed as a result of World War II and the conversion of the area into an army airfield and bomber plant. Today, the northern and eastern boundaries of the property are defined by the paved parking lots and Industrial Drive, and the southern and western boundaries are defined by recent and current construction. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 15) PART III. SOURCES OF INFORMATION A. Primary Sources 1. Van Buren, Maurie. Bankston Rock House." National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form. Historic Preservation Consulting, Avondale Estates, October 28, B. Secondary Sources24 1. Books a.

Bishir, Catherine. The Architecture of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, b. Mueller, Robert. Air Force Bases: Volume 2. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, c. Roth, Darlene, Architecture, Archaeology and Landscapes: Resources for Historic Preservation in Unincorporated Cobb County, GA. Cobb County, GA: Cobb County Historic Preservation Commission, d. Stickley, Gustav. Craftsman Homes. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, e. Temple, Sarah Blackwell Gober. The First Hundred Years: A short History of Cobb County in Georgia. Athens, GA: Agee Publisher, 2. Historic Resource Survey: a. Secrist, Phil, Historic Cobb County - Bicentennial Project. Cobb Landmarks Commission, 3. Interviews: a. Bankston, Jr.

Interview by Maurie Van Buren. Marietta, GA, December 1, and January 3, 24 The secondary sources listed are those that were included in the National Register nomination bibliography primary source for this report. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 16) b. Clay, John (Grandson of General Lucius Clay). Telephone interview by Maurie Van Buren, January 6, c. Huddlestun, Hal (Environmental Engineer, Dobbins ARB). Interview by Maurie Van Buren. Dobbins Air Reserve Base, November 30, and January 5, d. Kinney, Bill (Associate Editor, Marietta Daily Journal). Telephone interview by Maurie Van Buren, December 2, and January 5, e. Lamb, Greg (Wing Historian, Dobbins ARB). Telephone interview by Maurie Van Buren, December 4, f. Secrist, Phil (Historian).

Telephone interview by Maurie Van Buren, January 6, 4. Newspaper Articles: a. Dobbins in and in Marietta Daily Journal, Sept. 17, b. Kinney, Bill. Movie Brings Back Memories of Marietta's Bell Bomber Plant. Marietta Daily Journal, July 6, 5. Pamphlets: a. Dobbins Air Force Base. Rock Hill, SC: Woodbridge Publishing, b. Dobbins Air Reserve Base, United States Air Force, Fact Sheet. Marietta, GA: Airlift Wing Public Affairs, c. North Georgia Minuteman: An Unofficial Guide to Dobbins Air Force Base and Nawab Air Station, Atlanta. American Publisher, d. Verhulsy, Hazel. Dobbins Officers Wives Club History, Part A: Beginning to Marietta, GA: 6. Site Visits: a.

Maurie Van Buren, Jody Cook (Historian, National Park Service), Hal Huddlestun (Environmental Engineer, Dobbins ARB) and Bruce Ramo (Environmental Coordinator, Dobbins ARB), November 30, b. Maurie Van Buren, December 2, and January 4, BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 17) 7. Films and Photographs: a. Over Dixie. Buffalo, NY: Bell Aircraft Corporation, Film. b. Bankston, Jr. Rock House and Environs During Construction, Historic photographs. 8. Maps: a. Bankston, Jr. Sketch Site Plan of Rock House and Surroundings When Built. Drawn from Memory in b. Perry, T. Floor Plan of Rock House, located at Dobbins Air Force Base, Aug. 24, c. USR Consultants. Headquarters Air Force Reserve "Real Estate Plan . Dobbins Air Force Base, BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 18) PART IV.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS A. Drawings (Drawn by Croft & Associates, Inc. 1. Existing Floorplan BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 19) B. Historic Photographs All photographs shown here are for reference only. These photos were provided by Dobbins ARB at the time of Design in It is unknown as to the relevance or content of each photograph. Resolutions provided are the best available for the original files provided. Bankston Rock House. Date Unknown. Dobbins Air Reserve Base Collection. Bankston Rock House. Date Unknown. Dobbins Air Reserve Base Collection. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 20) Bankston Rock House. Date Unknown. Dobbins Air Reserve Base Collection. Bankston Rock House. Date Unknown. Dobbins Air Reserve Base Collection. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2441 (Page 21) Bankston Rock House. Date Unknown. Dobbins Air Reserve Base Collection. Bankston Rock House. Date Unknown. Dobbins Air Reserve Base Collection. BANKSTON ROCK HOUSE HABS No. GA-2441 (Page 22) Bankston Rock House. November 22, Dobbins Air Reserve Base Collection.