Lathemtown Historic District, Bud and Zona Heard House, 11718 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtown

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The Bud and Zona Heard 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 west of Matt Lathem Road. The house is located at latitude: longitude: This point was taken from the center of the Bud and Zona Heard 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 Zona 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 Zona Heard 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 ZONA HEARD HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-S (Page 2) Description: The Bud and Zona Heard House stands on the south side of SR 20 to the west of Matt Lathem Road. It is oriented north toward the highway and is the only extant resource on its lot at the time of survey. Dating to the early twentieth-century, the frame Bud and Zona Heard House stands one-story tall and is clad in vinyl siding. The floorplan of the Gabled- Wing Cottage is best described as L-shaped and is comprised of a central block with a front-projecting gable at its northeast corner, and a single-story rear-ell extending from its rear southeast corner. As result, the building has a cross- gabled roof that is clad with asphalt shingles.

A second gabled dormer is perched on the building s roof resulting in twin front-facing gables. The building s front (north) facade is three bays wide. Its first (easternmost) bay is centered on the front projecting gable and holds a four-over-four, double- hung, wood-sash window. A wood-panel door with a single diamond light at its top occupies the central bay, and paired four-over-four, double-hung, wood-sash windows comprise the third. All of the window and openings are set in vinyl surrounds and the windows are flanked by fixed vinyl shutters. A shed-roof porch runs the full length of the projecting bay and wraps fully across the ell. It is supported by tapered wood columns resting on brick bases with concrete caps.

At least three window openings are found on the building s eastern (side) facade and appear to hold the same four-over-four, double-hung, wood-sash windows as found on the front. Curved metal awnings with scalloped trim top these side openings. The building s rear (south) and west (side) facades have been completely overgrown by vegetation and were not visible at the time of survey. Aerial imagery suggests that a shed-roof porch or addition extends to the building s rear (south). History: According to granddaughter Joyce Milford Hutchins (born Joel A.

Heard bought the mule barn, which once stood just east of this house, from Harrison Alonzo Bud Turner in the (Bud Turner also owned the early twentieth-century house at Cumming Highway and its associated mule barn.) Joel and his wife, Birdie J. Godfrey moved from Mullins Township, west of Lathemtown, to Lathemtown between and The and censuses identify him as a livestock trader. 1 Joel and Birdie Heard likely acquired the barn and this house in the same transaction. However, they lived in a house immediately across the road that is no longer extant. That house looked much the same as this one: frame, one-and- 1 Mary Helen Cissell, Living, Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown (Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Women, 85; U.S. Bureau of the Census, and Federal Censuses.

LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ZONA HEARD HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-S (Page 3) a-half stories, full-facade porch, twin front gables. 2 Whether they lived in this house for long, or at all, has not been determined. (Also not determined is the extent of Bud Turner s connection with the property in the early part of the century.) The house looks much like other dwellings erected in Lathemtown in the late when the community blossomed. 3 Who its original occupant was is not known, but it was almost certainly standing when the Heards acquired the property. The Heards son and daughter-in-law, Lee Bud Heard and Zona F. Pete Lathem are most closely associated with the house. They lived in the house and Bud operated the neighboring barn with, and after, his father.

Bud Heard had a strong reputation for his riding abilities, horse and mule trading, and honesty. A longtime columnist for the Cherokee County newspaper wrote of him: Bud Heard is one of [the] three very best and most honest mule traders that I have ever known. In all my years of doing business with Bud Heard, Bud never told me an untruth about any horse that I ever bought from him. And Bud had the same kind of name for being honest with everyone that ever did any business with him. Everyone always spoke very highly of Bud Heard. 4 His obituary stated: Mr. Heard was a lifelong farmer, horse and mule trader. If you got up early Bud could be seen traveling down the Hwy with his trusty horse Smokey, mane and tail flying in the wind with saddle in place.

A deteriorated building behind the house was reportedly the Smith spinster sisters house. 5 A plat map identifies it as a residence, but Bud reportedly converted it into a shed after the sisters died. The little house may also have once held a beauty shop, perhaps operated by the sisters, according to affidavits submitted by longtime Lathemtown residents in connection with a deed. 2 Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, 3 See, for example, the Jack and Lizzie Lathem House (ca. at 120 Orange Church Circle and Marvin and Georgia Lathem House (ca. at Cumming Highway). 4 Elbert B. Gaddis, Days Gone By: Lathemtown was Famous for Mule Trading, Cherokee Citizen, May 22, on file in the Lathemtown vertical file, Cherokee County Historical Society, Canton, Georgia.

5 See 889d-3a6966420fac for mention of the sisters and photograph of Bud tending his garden adjacent to their house. The string of images, posted by Marsha Webb, associated with this photo include ones of Bud, his wife Pete, their house, and the mule barn. The identity of the sisters was not determined. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ZONA HEARD HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-S (Page 4) These state that for between 50 and 60 years, the property held the Heard residence, the horse and mule barn, and a beauty shop. 6

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Cherokee County Clerk of Court Office, Canton. Deed Book Page Deed Book Page Deed Book Page Deed Book Page Cissell, Mary Helen. Living Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown. Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Church, Gaddis, Elbert B. Days Gone By: Lathemtown was Famous for Mule Trading. Cherokee Citizen. May 2, On file in the Lathemtown vertical file, Cherokee County Historical Society, Canton, Georgia. United States Bureau of the Census. United States Federal Census. Accessed April https://www.ancestry.com/. 6 Cherokee County Deed Book includes the plat map. The affidavits, all from are found at Deed Book and and Deed Book LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ZONA HEARD HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-S (Page 5) Supplemental Materials 1.

Figures Georgia GIO State Imagery September Figure 1: Bud and Zona Heard House District Locator Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ZONA HEARD HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-S (Page 6) Figure 2: Bud and Zona Heard House Site Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ZONA HEARD HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-S (Page 7) Figure 3: House north (front) facade. View looking south. (Photography by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND ZONA HEARD HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-S (Page 8) Figure 4: Oblique of House, north (front) and east (side) facades. View looking southwest. (Photography by Sarah Potere, July