- Collection:
- Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library
- Title:
- Rankin House (Columbus, Ga.)
- Creator:
- Linley, John
- Date of Original:
- 1974-08
- Subject:
- Italianate
Brick
Cast iron
Iron alloy
Metal
Houses
Dwellings
Architecture--Georgia--Columbus
Architecture--Georgia--Muscogee County
Rankin, James--Homes and haunts
Wall, Lawrence Wimberly--Homes and haunts
Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc.
Benning, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1814-1875--Homes and haunts
Woolfolk, Charles Marion, Mrs.--Homes and haunts - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Located at: 1440 Second Avenue, Columbus, Ga.
Two-story red brick house on a brick foundation, featuring paired roof brackets, a one-story porch with elaborate ironwork across the front of the house, and a balcony above the entrance. The fence and gate are also cast iron. Construction began before the Civil War by James Rankin in 1859 and was finished after the war in 1867. James Rankin, planter and owner of The Rankin Hotel, immigrated to Columbus from Ayrshire in Scotland. The construction of the house is attributed to Lawrence Wimberly Wall, a native of South Carolina who worked as a brickmason in Savannah before coming to Columbus in the 1850s. In 1968, the Rankin House was donated to the Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc. (HCF) in memory of James Waldo Woodruff, Sr. Fully restored, its first floor is an 1850-1870 house museum and Research Room. On the second floor are the offices of Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc. The fence enhancing the property formerly surrounded the upper Broadway townhouse of General Henry Lewis Benning, the Confederate war hero for whom Fort Benning is named. The Rankin House courtyard was given in memory of Charlie Frank Williams, a prominent Columbus civic and community leader. Mrs. Charles Marion Woolfolk, the interior decorator, and Edward Warner Neal, the restoration architect, both Columbus natives, were particularly instrumental in the refurbishing of this house. For more information see Linley, John. The Georgia Catalog: Historic American Buildings Survey. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, c1982, p. 290.
Date of structure: 1859. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0740
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0740#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_jlc0740/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of image], John Linley Collection, Box 19, Owens Library, School of Environment and Design, The University of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 slide : color
- Holding Institution:
- Owens Library
- Rights:
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