Harley-Rives House (Sparta, Ga.)
Owens, Hubert B
Description
Located at: 720 Elm Street, Sparta, Ga.Two-story wood frame house on a high brick basement with one-story addition on back, featuring one-story porch across the front of the house with entablature supported by six fluted Doric columns. The porch is enclosed by a ballustrade and is reached by a central stairway. The house was built with slave labor, and most of the materials, including solid oak doors, were obtained from the owner's plantation. For more information see Linley, John. Architecture of Middle Georgia: the Oconee Area. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, c1972, pp. 70-71.Slide annotated: "Sparta, Georgia."Date of structure: 1850.
Record Contributed By
Owens Library
Record Harvested From
Digital Library of Georgia