Lathemtown Historic District, Bud and Alice Turner House, 11512 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtown

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The Bud and Alice Turner House is located at Cumming Highway/State Route 20 (SR 20) in Cherokee County, Georgia. The resource sits on the south side of the highway and stands just east of Arbor Hill Road. The house is located at latitude: longitude: This point was taken from the center of the Bud and Alice Turner 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 Bud and Alice Turner 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 a 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 Bud and Alice Turner 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, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 2) Description: The Bud and Alice Turner House stands on the south side of the intersection of SR 20 and Arbor Hill Road. The house shares its parcel with the Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn (GA-2445-I), which sits approximately 75 -0 to its southwest. Two frame outbuildings, one located approximately 5 -0 to the southwest of the house and one approximately 40 -0 to its southeast, are also situated on the parcel (Figure 7). The early twentieth-century Bud and Alice Turner House stands one-story tall and is a frame Pyramidal Cottage. The hipped-roof building is clad in weatherboards and edged with cornerboards. Asphalt shingles top its roof.

A large, two-bay, front-gabled porch fronts the building and spans almost the entire width of the front (north) facade. Supported by three, square, wood posts resting on brick bases, the deep-set porch features exposed rafter tails at its ends. A replacement wood balustrade spans the porch s perimeter and a fixed, four- light window with a wood surround is centered on the porch s weatherboard- clad pediment. Two, fifteen-light, single-leaf, wood doors are arranged in a mirror placement and rest beneath the porch in wood surrounds. A six-over-six, double-hung, wood-sash window, also set in a heavily molded wood surround, flanks the outside of each doorway (Figure 3 and Figure 4).

Two openings are symmetrically placed on the building s west (side) facade with each holding a six-over-six, double-hung, wood-sash window. The building s east (side) facade also features two openings. The first (northern-most) holds a replacement vinyl unit set in a replacement surround. The second opening holds a band of three six-over-six, double-hung, wood-sash windows set in an original wood surround. A frame shed-roof addition, which is clad in German siding and topped with asphalt shingles, displays exposed rafter tails, and extends from the building s rear (south) facade.

The addition is divisible into four bays and includes a band of four, fixed, six-light windows in a replacement surround; a small, square opening which has been boarded up; a doorway holding a wood door with six lights above and two raised panels below; and a pair of four-over-four, double- hung, wood-sash windows in a wood surround. A shed-roof awning supported by wooden kneebraces shelters the door, which is approached by concrete block steps (Figure 5). A frame, side-gabled outbuilding sits just off the southwest corner of the house and is clad in siding. The rectangular building is two bays wide at its north (front) facade which holds a replacement door and an eight-over-eight, double- hung, wood-sash window.

Its rear (south) facade features a doorway, which has lost its door, and a pair of nine-over-nine, double-hung, wood-sash windows. Two four-over-four, double-hung, wood-sash windows are symmetrically placed LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 3) on the building s western (side) facade. Its eastern facade holds a single six-over- six, double-hung, wood-sash window (Figure 6). Situated roughly ten yards southeast of the house, a second frame outbuilding is found on the parcel. Also dating to the early twentieth-century, the small, side- gabled, building is oriented to the east. It is clad in German siding, topped with standing-seam metal and displays exposed rafter tails.

The building s front (east) facade is divisible into three bays which include a centrally placed, raised panel, wood door; a six-over-six, double-hung, wood-sash window flanking the door to the north; and a nine-over-nine, double-hung, wood-sash window which flanks the door to its south. All three bays are sheltered by a cantilevered shed-roof, porch. Capped with standing-seam metal, the porch features exposed rafter tails and is clad with German siding. A nine-over-nine, double-hung, wood-sash window is centered on both the building s northern and southern side-gable ends (Figure 8). A frame, three-bay shed-roof addition extends from the building s west (rear) facade and spans the width of the building. The addition is clad with German siding and topped with standing-seam metal.

Its central bay holds a fixed six- light door with raised panels below. It is sheltered by a shed-roofed hood supported by wooden kneebraces. Paired six-over-six, double-hung, wood-sash windows flank the door on its northern side and a single six-over-six, double- hung, wood-sash window is found to the door s south (Figure 9). History: Harrison Alonzo Turner married Alice Lathem in Harrison was known as Bud, or Lonzo. In they had one child and lived in a rented house in Mullins township, west of Lathemtown. Bud was a farmer. By they owned their own house, mortgage-free, which they shared with their five children in Lathemtown. Bud was self-employed as a horse trader.

They erected their house between the construction date assigned by tax records, and Alice died of tuberculosis in leaving eight children behind. By Bud was remarried to Mary E. Wigley They added two more children by Mary died of cancer in Bud continued to trade in livestock until his sudden death by stroke in Andrew J. Turner purchased the house following Bud s death. One of Bud s many siblings, he was 11 years Bud s senior. Andrew was married to 1 U.S. Bureau of the Census, and Federal Censuses. In Charles Dwight Dude Turner the Turners youngest child, recalled that he grew up in that house on the corner where they sell flowers and plants now. Mary Helen Cissell, Living, Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown (Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Women, 2 U.S.

Bureau of the Census, and Federal Censuses; Georgia, Death Index, Harrison Turner, accessed April https://www.ancestry.com. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 4) Harriet M. Roper By according to census records, their son, Samuel (Sam) J. Turner, had taken over the sale barn and the livestock business.3 Sam was married to Mamie L. Gilleland In their son, Leneal Turner, and his wife, Joyce, transferred multiple parcels and tracts of land including the land the house and barn (GA-2445-I) stand on to the Turner Family Trust, which continues to own them.4 The house is now the center of a plant nursery and floral business on the property called Corner Antiques and Garden.

The small frame outbuilding on the property about 40 -0 south of the Turner House on the west side of Orange Church Circle may once have been a dwelling. Tax records assign it a construction date. Alterations make it difficult to date, but if it was built in the late it was likely erected by Andrew Turner. The identity of its early occupants, assuming it was once a residence, was not determined. It is now associated with the property s nursery and floral business.

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Cissell, Mary Helen. Living Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown. Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Church, Cherokee County Clerk of Court Office, Canton. Deed Book Page Georgia, Death Index, Harrison Turner. Accessed April https://www.ancestry.com. United States Bureau of the Census. United States Federal Census. Accessed June-August https://www.ancestry.com/. 3 Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Federal Census. 4 Cherokee County Deed Book LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 5) Supplemental Materials 1. Figures Georgia GIO State Imagery September Figure 1: Bud and Alice Turner House District Locator Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2445-H (Page 6) Figure 2: Bud and Alice Turner Site Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 7) Figure 3: Oblique of House, north (front) and west (side) facades. View looking southeast. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 8) Figure 4: Oblique of House, north (front) and east (side) facades. View looking southwest. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 9) Figure 5: House and Outbuilding rear (south) facades. View looking north. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2445-H (Page 10) Figure 6: Outbuilding north (front) facade. View looking south. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 11) Figure 7: Context view of House and Outbuildings with Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn (GA-2445-I) in background. View looking west. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 12) Figure 8: Outbuilding north (side) facade. View looking south. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ALICE TURNER HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-H (Page 13) Figure 9: Oblique of Outbuilding, west (rear) and north (side) facades. View looking southeast. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July