Northwest Marietta Historic District

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The Northwest Marietta Historic District is a 230-acre (93 ha) historic district in Marietta, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It includes Late Victorian, Greek Revival, Plantation Plain, and other architecture. The district includes an area in downtown Marietta, with the southernmost point being south of Whitlock Avenue on McDonald Street, and runs out Kennesaw Avenue to Noses Creek (just past St. Anne's Rd.) in the northwest. Kennesaw House (c.1845), 21 Depot St., a hotel on the L&N railway. In 1862 this was the Fletcher House hotel where Andrews' Raiders stayed the night before commandeering The General and setting off the Great Locomotive Chase. It later became a Confederate hospital, then was occupied by Union soldiers until it partially burned, then was returned to use as a hotel. (#16 of accompanying photos) NC & StL Passenger Depot (1898), Depot Street (#14) Brumby Chair Factory, Church Street (c. 1879), manufacturer of the "famous" Brumby rocker chair. (#15 of accompanying photos) Nichols-Benson House, (c. 1850), Whitlock, with servants quarters Glover-Blair-Anderson House (c. 1851), 81 Whitlock Avenue (photo #4), with smoke house and servants quarters, "unquestionably one of the finest antebellum structures in Marietta. This two-story brick stuccoed structure has a hipped roof, heavy lintel window treatment and a simple one-story East Lake influenced porch. In the 1870s, as a result of a fire in the attic, the house was restored immediately after which resulted in the elaborate Victorian appearance." The house was built for entrepreneur John Heyward Glover, who had built and sold the Greek Revival-style Glover-McLeod-Garrison House (1847-51), also in Marietta, Georgia. That other house was built and/or designed by Willis Ball. McLellan-Birney House, (c. 1870); Church Street at Kennesaw Avenue (photo #11) neo-classical. It was the childhood home of Alice McLellan Birney (1858 – 1907) American educator who co-founded the National Parent-Teacher Association in 1897. Rogers-Abbott-Fowler House (c. 1850), Church Street (at Kennesaw Avenue), Greek Revival with "a two gallery columned portico", unusual for Greek Revival in Georgia. McNeal-Hawkins-Hamrich House (c. 1895), 331 Church Street, N.W. (photo #12), neo-classical with "a [C]orinthian portico, full entablature and hip roof" Clarke Library Building (c. 1893), Church Street at Polk-Lemon Street, an Octagon style building (photo #10) Root House (c.1840), Lemon Street, behind the Clarke Library Building, "a modest Plain Plantation style house", separately listed on the NRHP in 2014

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