Lathemtown Historic District, Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith House, 11501 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtown

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The Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith House is located at Cumming Highway/State Route 20 (SR 20) in Cherokee County, Georgia. The resource sits on the north side of the highway and stands just east of Trenton Lane. The house is located at latitude: longitude: This point was taken from the center of the Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith 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 Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith 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 Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith 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, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 2) Description: The Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith House stands on the north side of SR 20 directly east of Trenton Lane. The house is oriented south toward the highway and is accompanied on its lot by a mid twentieth-century frame shed, which stands to its rear (north). The early twentieth-century Queen Anne Cottage stands one-story tall and features an original square block with a rear shed-roof addition, resulting in an overall rectangular footprint. It is clad in original weatherboards and edged with cornerboards.

It rests on a continuous brick foundation and its hipped roof with projecting gables is covered with asphalt shingles and displays exposed rafter tails. An interior brick chimney rises from the center of the building and is topped with a metal chimney cap. The front (south) facade of the building is divisible into three bays. The first bay, a front-gabled block which projects slightly forward from the main plane of the facade, holds a paired set of three-over-one, double-hung, wood-sash windows set in wood surrounds. The front-projecting block displays a recessed pediment clad in weatherboards and framed below by asphalt shingles. A small, square opening, which has been covered, is centered on the pediment and likely once held a window or louvers.

The facade s remaining two bays hold a replacement door set in an original surround and paired three-over-one, double-hung, wood sash window. A flat-roof porch with exposed rafter tails shelters these two eastern bays of the southern facade. The porch stands on a brick foundation and is supported by three square, wood posts which are spanned by replacement wood balustrades. With the exception of the brick foundation, all of the porch s materials appear to be replacement. The building s east (side) elevation is also divisible into three bays (Figure 3). Its southernmost bay holds a paired set of two-over-two, double-hung, wood-sash windows. A front-projecting gable block in the same style as that found on the building s south (front) facade comprises the second bay.

It also holds a pair of two-over-two, double-hung, wood-sash windows. A doorway is found on the southern facade of this projecting block and holds a replacement door which is sheltered by a shed-roof hood. The hood features exposed rafter tails and is supported by a single turned wood post. Both the door and the entry appear to be twentieth-century alterations. The third, or northernmost bay, of the building s eastern (side) facade holds a banded set of three, four-light fixed windows in wood surrounds. Three openings are also found on the building s western (side) facade. Paired two-over-two, double-hung, wood-sash windows set in original wood surrounds comprise the southern two bays of the facade.

A pedimented dormer, in the same style as those topping the building s front-projecting gable blocks on its southern and eastern facades, projects from the roof above the western facade s LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 3) centrally placed window. The facade s northernmost bay holds a replacement door set in wood surrounds. The door is sheltered by a shed-roof portico supported by turned wood posts and rests on a raised brick foundation. A frame, L-shaped shed-roof addition spans the building s rear (north) facade. It is clad in German siding and topped with asphalt shingles.

A two-bay, shed-roof, frame carport topped with standing-seam metal and supported by wooden posts extends from the addition and attaches to the interior of the L . It, along with the shed-roof addition, is likely a late twentieth-century addition (Figure 4 and Figure 5). A front-gabled frame outbuilding, which is believed to have originally functioned as a garage, is situated to the northwest (rear) of the house. It is topped by a front-gabled, standing-seam metal roof and displays a variety of wood and metal cladding materials. The outbuilding likely dates to the mid twentieth-century (Figure 6). History: This house appears to date from the early twentieth-century, in spite of the construction date that tax records claim for it.

The earliest identified deed associated with the property is from when its property enveloped an expansive 13 acres. The deed noted that the acreage contained buildings and was part of the Jack White old homestead. The grantor, Alice Smith, transferred the property in consideration of My love and affection for my daughter-in-law, Drucilla Smith. 1 Jack White, whose full name was Andrew Jackson White was Alice Smith s father. He bequeathed a life estate in all of his property to his wife, Susan Margaret. It was then to pass to his Beloved daughter, Alice. He also stated a wish that his son-in-law, Smith Alice s husband manage my farm and look after my business and manage for my wife until her death.

2 The house was likely erected by Alice and her husband in the early twentieth- century, following Jack White s death. Alice (or Allice) Josephine White was born in the Free Home community west of Lathemtown to Rebecca White, her father s second wife. In July at the age of 14, she wed 19-year- old Samuel Green Smith (known as Samuel or Green), from the Cross Roads community in which Lathemtown is located. 3 In Alice and Samuel, who farmed, were living in a rented house in Lathemtown with their three children, Lily, Arthur, and Thomas.

Four other 1 Cherokee County Board of Tax Assessors, Property Record Search for Cumming Hw; Cherokee County Deed Book 7/Page 50 2 Cherokee County Will Book C/Page 362 3 Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, Josephine White, accessed June-August https://www.ancestry.com. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 4) households separated them from Jack and Rebecca. In they owned their own home, mortgage free, in Lathemtown. Lily was no longer at home, but a fourth child, Eulalia, had been added to the family. In the household consisted of Samuel, Alice, Arthur, Tom, Eulalia, and the fifth and last child, Myrtle.

4 By the taking of the census in April, the household was reduced to Alice and Samuel, who had stopped farming and worked for wages as a salesman at a grocery store. Next door to them lived their son, Thomas, his wife, Drucilla, and their two children, Hamrick and Christine. They owned their own house and Thomas was a merchant at a general store. Samuel died by the end of the year and his death certificate identified him as a farmer, not a grocery store salesman. 5 Alice retained a life estate all or part of the property the deed is unclear and likely lived there until her death in

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Cherokee County Board of Tax Assessors. Property Records Search for Cumming Hw. Accessed April at http://gis.cherokeega.com/ Cherokee County Clerk of Court Office, Canton. Deed Book 7, Page 50, Will Book C, Page Georgia, Death Index, Samuel Smith. Accessed April ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, Josephine White. Accessed June-August https://www.ancestry.com. United States Bureau of the Census. United States Federal Census. Accessed June-August https://www.ancestry.com/. 4 U.S. Bureau of the Census, and Federal Censuses. 5 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Federal Census; Georgia, Death Index, Samuel Smith, accessed April https://www.ancestry.com. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 5) Supplemental Materials 1.

Figures Georgia GIO State Imagery September Figure 1: Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith House District Locator Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 6) Figure 2: Samuel G. and Alice W. Smith House Site Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 7) Figure 3: Oblique of House, south (front) and east (side) facades. View looking northwest. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 8) Figure 4: House north (rear) facade. View looking south. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2445-J (Page 9) Figure 5: Oblique view of House, north (rear) and west (side) facades. View looking southeast. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, SAMUEL G. AND ALICE W. SMITH HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-J (Page 10) Figure 6: Oblique view of former garage, south (front) and west (side) facades. View looking northeast. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July