Lathemtown Historic District, E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem House, 11662 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtown

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The E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem 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 Orange Church Circle. The house is located at latitude: longitude: This point was taken from the center of the E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem 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 E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem 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 E. Marvin and Georgia B. Latham 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 LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2445-T (Page 2) Survey (HABS) documentation (historical narrative report and large format photography) was prepared in accordance with the stipulations of the MOA. Description: The E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem House stands on the south side of SR 20 to the east of Orange Church Circle. It is oriented north toward the highway and is accompanied on its lot by a concrete-block garage and frame shed, both of which are situated to the rear of the residence. Dating to the early twentieth-century, the single-story Gable-Wing Cottage rests on a brick foundation. The building features an central hall, double-pile plan and is topped by a cross-gable roof clad in asphalt shingles. Vinyl siding covers or replaces the building s original exterior cladding material.

Twin gables are symmetrically placed atop the roof of the building s front (north) facing facade. The front-facing gables feature raked cornices and pediments clad with diamond-shaped shingles. A one-over-one, double-hung, wood-sash window is placed at the center of each pediment. It retains original wood surrounds and is topped by a molded wood lintel. A second set of twin gables in the same style are perched atop the roof of the building s western facade. The rear (southernmost) gable features the same window at its center. The northern gable is embraced by an exterior-end, shouldered, brick chimney. A twin chimney rises from the building s eastern (side) gable end.

A three-bay, hipped-roof porch spans the length of the building s front (north) facade and is supported by tapered wood columns. Centered atop the porch roof is a small gabled pediment, similar in style to those found on the main roof of the house. Resting beneath the porch is the building s centrally placed primary entrance, which has been boarded over. It is flanked on either side by one-over- one, replacement vinyl windows. An eight-bay screened porch embraces the building s western facade and is placed just behind the facade s shouldered chimney. A shed-roof tops the appendage and features a pediment in the same style as the front (north facade) porch placed off-centered on its roof.

Resting beneath the pediment, occupying the screened porch s fifth bay, is a twentieth-century, two-light divided storm door. The porch s remaining bays all hold rectangular screens set in wood frames. The porch shelters three openings on the building s western facade. These include a wood door comprised of six fixed lights with three recessed panels below and two, two-over-two, double-hung, wood-sash windows which are found on either side of the door. Two additional windows of the same type are found on the western facade, one to the left (north) of the chimney and the second to the right (south) of the screened porch. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No.

GA-2445-T (Page 3) The building s southern and eastern elevations have become overgrown with vegetation and their architectural details are indiscernible. A concrete-block garage accompanies the house on its lot and sits approximately 40 -00 to the southwest of the house. The building is rectangular in plan and oriented to the north. Its front-gabled roof is topped with standing-seam metal and its facades display exposed concrete block. A large single opening is centered on its north facade. It has lost its original doors. Situated approximately 15 -0 to the direct rear of the house is a front-gabled, frame shed. The building is clad in German siding and its roof with standing- seam metal with exposed rafter tails.

Its front (north) facade is divisible into two bays and includes a doorway to the east and a window to the east. Both openings have lost their original units and stand empty. Views through the voids reveal a poured concrete floor at the building s interior. History: Elijah Marvin Lathem who usually went by E.M. or Marvin, was one of the sons of W.A. and Arizona Lathem. His father founded the W.A. Lathem and Sons general store, which still stands across the road from this house, in In December Marvin married Georgia Viola Bell The house was standing by their wedding day or not long thereafter. An early photograph of it has the words Year House was Built 79 yrs old written across its top in an elderly hand.

According to a note included with the photo at Ancestry.com, Ruth Lathem, the Lathems second child, labeled the image in The photo dates from ca. for a tiny Grace Lathem, Ruth s older sister, stands holding her father s hand. (Grace was born in early November Marvin Lathem s working life was largely spent at the family store. In when he was an unmarried teenager, he lived with his parents and worked as a farm laborer. The federal census identified him as a retail merchant at a general store, an employer rather than an employee, and the owner of a mortgage-free house. His and census entries mirror this status. By five of the Lathems children Grace, Ruth, George, Katie, and Zona had been raised in and moved out of the house.

Only Loyce, their 1 Mary Helen Cissell, Living, Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown (Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Women, 2 Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, Georgia Bell, accessed June-August ancestry.com/. 3 See entry for Elijah Marvin Lathem in White Family Tree at https://www.ancestry.com/. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-T (Page 4) youngest, remained.4 By this time Marvin was running W.A. Lathem and Sons with two of his brothers, Jack and Charlie. The three were the Sons in the business name.5 Georgia and Marvin s children did not inherit the house. According to Loyce Lathem Smith, Marvin s sister Ruth Lathem never married because their mother was sick, and she waited on her.

Due to this, Marvin willed the house to Ruth to live in as long as she lived. 6 Following Ruth s death in his estate sold the house to Billie Hester, the husband of the Lathems daughter, Katie.7

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Atlanta Constitution. Katie L. Hester. Obituary. January 23, Accessed June L.%20Hester&match=1. Ruth Lathem. Obituary. February 6, Accessed June Lathem&match=1. Cherokee County Clerk of Court Office, Canton. Deed Book Page 33, Cissell, Mary Helen. Living Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown. Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Church, Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, Georgia Bell. Accessed June-August https://www.ancestry.com/. United States Bureau of the Census. United States Federal Census. Accessed April https://www.ancestry.com/. 4 U.S. Bureau of the Census, and Federal Censuses. 5 Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, 6 Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, 7 Cherokee County Deed Book 2253/Page 33 Katie L.

Hester, Obituary, Atlanta Constitution, January 23, accessed June ; Ruth Lathem, Obituary, Atlanta Constitution February 6, accessed June .newspapers.com/ LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-T (Page 5) Supplemental Materials 1. Figures Georgia GIO State Imagery September Figure 1: E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem House District Locator Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-T (Page 6) Figure 2: E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem House Site Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-T (Page 7) Figure 3: Detail of north (front) facade. View looking south. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B.

LATHEM HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-T (Page 8) Figure 4: House south (front) facade, with scale. View looking north. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-T (Page 9) Figure 5: Oblique view of the Garage, north (front) and west (side) facades. View looking southeast. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, E. MARVIN AND GEORGIA B. LATHEM HOUSE HABS No. GA-2445-T (Page 10) Figure 6: Oblique view of the Shed, north (rear) and west (side) facades. View looking southeast. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July