- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Freeman-Hurt-Evans House
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Swann, Burdine
Wickett, Joe
Clifton, William
Foy, John
Evans, J. W.
Scarboro, Llona
Macgregor, Elizabeth Z. - Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Gordon County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Gordon County
Architecture, Domestic--Georgia--Gordon County
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, Ranger, 34.5012, -84.70966
- Medium:
- color slides
historic houses
country houses
dogtrot houses
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- [View from central room to a doorway, fireplace, and fireplace mantel] at the Freeman-Hurt-Evans House. Located south of Oakman, Georgia, the Freeman-Hurt-Evans house sits along the historic Old Tennessee Road. The property features a collection of buildings, including a relatively new wooden shed, a caretaker's cottage, a barn with hand-hewn boards and notched corners, the guest house, known as "Travelers' Rest," and the main house. The main house began as a one and one-half story dog-trot log structure. Dog-trot houses are built with two pens, separated by a passageway, with the entirety covered by a single roof. The dogtrot elements were built with half-dovetail notching and mortise and tenon joints. Over time, the house expanded to two and one-half stories, incorporating clapboard additions and a north wing featuring Doric corner pilasters and a unique hex symbol on its gable. Original slate chimneys and a round-arched front fireplace, typical of pre-1825 construction, remain, while later modifications include electricity, plumbing, and the removal of the front porch. The house retains its historic setting. The Freeman-Hurt Evans House dates to 1785, built by Burdine Swann, a Cherokee carpenter from Pickens County before the land lottery of 1832, with a local man named Joe Wickett. The earliest known owner of the property was George W. Adair, a Cherokee settler with five enslaved persons. The Freeman-Hurt-Evans House (1785), a “Travelers Rest” (1830s), and two other historic buildings. William Clifton recorded this information as district surveyor for Georgia's 1832 land lottery. The first known post-land lottery owner of the house was James Freeman, who bought it before the Civil War. The house remained in the Freeman-Hurt family until the late 1940s, when it was sold to J. W. Evans, of Fairmount, Georgia, and was occupied until the late 1950s-early 1960s; the old log house was later used for hay storage. In 1975, when its National Register of Historic Places nomination form was completed, The Freeman-Hurt-Evans House was the largest known log structure in the state. The property represents the integral part played by the house in the history of North Georgia as it developed from early settlement to plantation culture. Variant names include: Freeman-Hurt-Evans House, Rockdale Plantation (George Adair Home). See ref# 76000636 (Freeman-Hurt House) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_527
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_527#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_527/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
