- Collection:
- Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library
- Title:
- Jimmy Carter's boyhood home (Plains, Ga.)
- Creator:
- Linley, John
- Date of Original:
- 1979-10
- Subject:
- Plexico, John Franklin
Downer, T. R., Mrs.
Vernacular architecture
Wood (plant material)
Stone
Rock
Metal
Houses
Dwellings
Architecture--Georgia--Plains
Architecture--Georgia--Sumter County
Carter, James Earl--Homes and haunts
Carter, Jimmy--Homes and haunts
Carter family--Homes and haunts - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Plains, 32.03405, -84.39269
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Located at: 300 North Bond Street, Plains, Ga.
One-story wood frame house with pyramidal roof and wide ventilator with shed roof. Half columns of stone are adapted from the bungalow style. Chimneys appear to be of stone. The house was built in 1910 from Sears & Roebuck plans, and the yellow metal awning was added later. James Earl Carter, Sr. and his family moved into this farmhouse in 1928. The house was heated by fireplaces or wood stoves and did not have running water or electricity until 1938. Before, water for showers was brought from the hand pump well was heated on a wood stove and poured into a bucket with holes in the bottom which hung from the ceiling. For sanitation they had an outdoor privy. The Carter family lived in this house until 1949. Restoration of the home began in 1994 to show not only how the future president grew up but to preserve an example of rural life in the Depression South. In 2000, Jimmy Carter dedicated his rural boyhood home as a national historic site. For more information see Linley, John. The Georgia Catalog: Historic American Buildings Survey. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, c1982, p. 318.
Date of structure: 1922. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0343
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0343#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0343/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of image], John Linley, Box 8
- Extent:
- 1 slide : color
- Holding Institution:
- Owens Library
- Rights:
-
