Lathemtown Historic District, Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House, 152 Orange Church Circle, Lathemtown

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The Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House is located at 152 Orange Church Circle in Cherokee County, Georgia. The resource sits on the west side of the Orange Church Circle loop, which intersects with State Route 20 (SR 20) at both its northern and southern terminuses. The house is located at latitude: longitude: This point was taken from the center of the Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House. It was obtained on September 10, using Google Earth There is no restriction on its release to the public.

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The Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House is a contributing resource to the Lathemtown Historic District. The early twentieth-century residence supports Lathemtown s significance as an intact, rural historic district. The house stands as representation of the agricultural community s continued growth and development during the first half of the twentieth century. See the Lathemtown Historic District (HABS No. GA-2445) overview for further discussion of overall district significance. Historians: Marvin Brown, M.A., Senior Architectural Historian, AECOM Sarah Potere, Architectural Historian, AECOM Report Completed October

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The Georgia Department of Transportation is implementing plans to widen State Route 20 from two to six lanes between Scott Road (near Canton) and North Corners Parkway (near Cumming). The project corridor spans approximately miles and falls within Cherokee and Forsyth Counties. As a result of this roadway expansion, all or part of the Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House will be demolished. Mitigation efforts were explored and a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was developed between the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Georgia Department of Transportation, and the Georgia State Historic Preservation Officer.

This Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation (historical narrative report and large format photography) was prepared in accordance with the stipulations of the MOA. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 2) Description: The Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House stands on the west side of Orange Church Circle, just south of the road s intersection with SR 20. The house shares its parcel with the Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem House (GA which sits approximately 50 -0 to the north and fronts SR 20 (Figure 3). Constructed ca. the single-story Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House is oriented to the east and L-shaped in plan.

The frame house is comprised of an original, three-bay, front-gabled block and an early/mid twentieth-century, side-gabled addition which extends from the house s southwest corner. The house is clad in original German siding and edged with wooden cornerboards. Asphalt shingles top the building s gable roof, which is edged by an unadorned fascia (Figure 4). The house rests on a brick foundation which is raised at the building s rear, due to the sloped nature of its parcel, to allow for a crawlspace. Small rectangular vents punctuate the foundation (Figure 5). A mid/late twentieth-century shed-roof porch embraces the front (east) facade of the original block. It is supported by two square, wooden posts which rest on an at-grade concrete slab porch deck.

The porch shelters the building s centrally placed primary entrance. The entrance holds a replacement, paneled, single-leaf fiberglass door which is framed by an original or early wooden door surround. One-over-one, double-hung, wood-sash windows flank either side of the doorway. Although the window units are likely mid twentieth-century replacements, the openings retain original or early wooden surrounds. A wooden vent is centered in the facade s gable, just above the porch s junction with the original block. A set of paired, six-light, casement windows are found on the western facade of the building s side-gable addition and are likely original. They are set in original wood surrounds.

Three windows of the same type as those found on the front facade of the original block are centrally placed along the building s northern (side) facade (Figure 5). The house s rear (west) facade is largely obscured by vegetation but appears to hold a combination of the same window types as found on the building s front (east) facade. A small shed-roof addition extends from the southern (side) facade of the original, front-gabled block and was in place by The frame block features the same exterior cladding and roof materials as the original block, but displays exposed rafter tails at its southern (side) facade.

A one-over-one, double-hung, 1 Historic Aerials, and aerials, (images) and aerial image search of 152 Orange Church Circle, Netronline, accessed September LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 3) wood-sash window sets within a wood surround and is centered on the front (north) facade of the addition (Figure 4). History: Following their marriage in Sam and Lorene Gibbs Gilleland rented this house from Luther J. ( Jack or Luther ) and Elizabeth ( Lizzie or Annie ) W. Lathem. Along with the Lathems larger dwelling to its north (addressed at 120 Orange Church Circle), it stood and continues to stand on a single parcel of land.

Lorene Gilleland fondly recalled in Sam and I lived in Lizzie and Jack Lathem s little house (on Orange Church Circle)[.] We didn t even have a refrigerator. Lizzie said to me, You just bring your milk over here and put it in my icebox. 2 The census identified Sam as a farmer.3 By the late Willie C. and Willie B. Lathem Cochran Jack and Lizzie s son-in-law and daughter lived in the house. At least two of their daughters, Jo Anne and Wanda, were born there. Like Sam Gilleland and most of Lathemtown s men, in Willie C. Cochran was a farmer.4 C. Frank and Eloise Lathem Smithwick who married in lived in the house after the Cochrans. Jack and Lizzie were Eloise s grandparents.5 The house now sits vacant.

County tax records date the house s construction to Its appearance suggests it may have been erected in the or early

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Cissell, Mary Helen. Living Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown. Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Church, Cherokee County Board of Tax Assessors. Property Records Search for 152 Orange Church Cir. Accessed April at http://gis.cherokeega.com/ 2 Mary Helen Cissell, Living, Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown (Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Women, 25. 3 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Federal Census. 4 Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Federal Census. 5 Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, 6 Cherokee County Board of Tax Assessors, Property Record Search for 152 Orange Church Cir. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 4) Netronline.

Historic Aerials: 152 Orange Church Circle. Internet Search Engine. Accessed April United States Bureau of the Census. United States Federal Census. Accessed April https://www.ancestry.com/. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 5) Supplemental Materials 1. Figures Georgia GIO State Imagery September Figure 1: Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House District Locator Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 6) Figure 2: Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House Site Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 7) Figure 3: Oblique of House, east (front) and south (side) facades.

View looking northwest. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 8) Figure 4: House east (front) facade. View looking west. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 9) Figure 5: House north (side) facade. View looking south. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, ELIZABETH W. AND LUTHER J. LATHEM RENTAL HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-B (Page 10) Figure 6: House west (rear) facade. View looking east. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July