Franklin House (Athens, Georgia)
33.957777777778 - 83.376388888889Koordinaten: 33 ° 57 ' 28 " N, 83 ° 22' 35 " W
The Franklin House is a three storey historic building of brick in 464-480 East Broad Street in Athens, Georgia. It was built in 1845-1860 in three different phases. It was originally in the Antebellum building a commercial building with a hotel in the upper floors; 1865 to 1972 it was used as a tool trade. On December 11, 1974, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1980s, it was renovated and converted into an office building.
Description
The architecture of the house has both elements of the Federal Style and Greek Revival of. It has a gabled roof with gables at the ends of the ridge. Doors on the second floor of the house opened once on a veranda and a pedestrian bridge that are not preserved. 1886 a cast iron storefront was installed on the ground floor.
History
The land for the building belonged to the University of Georgia and was bought at an auction by William L. Mitchell; Mitchell was one of the most famous owner of his time in the region and already ran a hotel with the name Mitchell House. In this building were originally used for business premises on the ground floor, which came later in the upper floors Franklin Hotel. The silversmith Asaph K. Childs had a shop on the ground floor, other early tenants who offered their services in the Franklin House, was the provider of daguerreotype RL Wood & Co. and the dentist O. Munsen. The building was later sold for $ 17,000 to John W. Nicholson. On 15 July 1871 the building belonged to that time Nicholson, burned in the second and third floors of the building a fire that resulted in property damage of more than U.S. $ 1,000, but it was the press reports of " almost superhuman energy of the fire people " to owe, who acted promptly and effectively at the fire, and brought within 90 minutes the fire under control.
The hotel was closed in 1865 and the building was subsequently used only by the Childs - Nickerson Company, which was incorporated in 1889 as Athens Hardware Company, and until 1972 was. The year the building was found to be unstable and should be torn down, but in 1973 began the Athens- Clarke Heritage Foundation with the collection of money to buy the house. The Foundation brought to 75,000 U.S. dollars, which was a grant of the then Governor Jimmy Carter. In order to stabilize the building, applied to a support by the National Park Service and was informed of this $ 30,000. Hugh Fowler, a local businessman, bought the building in 1977 and began renovating it. He sold it later at Broad Street Associates of Tucker, Georgia, under whose ownership the renovation was completed and developed office space in the house. The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation awarded the Investors in 1983, because they judged renovation and reconstruction performed for "extraordinary".
Historical classification
The Historic American Buildings Survey has documented the building under No. GA- 1122. On December 11, 1974, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; as a local Historic Landmark, it was ranked on 6 March 1990.