- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- Marietta National Cemetery, Lodge, 500 Washington Avenue, Marietta, Cobb County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Contributor to Resource:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Owner
National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, sponsor
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Marietta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
national cemeteries
Dutch Colonial architectural elements
domestic life
Georgia -- Cobb County -- Marietta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Data Page(s): 7
Significance: Of the twentieth-century lodge forms, the design in the Dutch Colonial Revival oeuvre was selected most often. Fourteen lodges were built using this plan between 1921 and 1934. The design called for a one and one-half story building with masonry construction at the first floor and wood-frame gambrel roofs enclosing the upper floor. The building footprint was rectangular and included an enclosed porch and office in the front, a living room and stair in the middle, and a dining room and kitchen at the rear. The second floor contained three bedrooms and a bathroom opening off of a central hall. Three versions of the design were used. The first in four lodges erected between 1921 and 1928, with hollow core tile walls covered in stucco, shingled roofs and gable ends, and dormers two windows in width on the front and rear. The second version expanded the dormer from two windows to four, adding more light the upper floor. This plan was used twice, for lodges in Nashville and Chattanooga, in 1931. WPA funds paid for the construction of lodges in 1934, including eight built to a third rendition of the Dutch Colonial Revival design. In 1934, the building materials included a brick construction on the first floor and faux half-timbered or brick gables. The lodge in Marietta is especially important as the first lodge built in the Dutch Colonial Revival style in the national cemetery system. The Marietta lodge cost $10,250 to construct of stuccoed hollow tile and frame. This lodge, completed in 1921, replaced an early lodge type that was significant as an example of the linear plan lodge initially one-story and then raised to two stories.
Survey number: HALS GA-1-A
Building/structure dates: 1921 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 98001170 - Local Identifier:
- HALS GA-1-A
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga1105/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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