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1. 4535 Dallas Street, Circa 1851
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History:
This charming Central Hallway Cottage was originally 560 square feet with 2 fireplaces. The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Circa 1920-1932 show the home with an addition of 780 square feet.
With a complete renovation in 2018 and recent additions, the house is 3,500 sq ft with new front and back porches and a detached two car garage. Fresh landscaping in the backyard added a cozy fire pit to enjoy the great outdoors.
Acworth historians refer to this home as the Carrie Dyer home. The Club was established in Acworth in 1898 as the Calleopeans. It was renamed in 1901, upon Carrie Dyer’s death, to the Carrie Dyer Reading Club.
Later, the club was named The Carrie Dyer Women’s Club. The Club purchased the home in 1910 and used the building as a clubhouse and public library. The Club operated a library in the home until it joined the Cobb County Marietta Public Library in 1963.
In July of 2016 the home was purchased off the Courthouse steps by an investor, and the home sat vacant for more than a year and a half. An entire section of the house was missing and the interior had been exposed to the weather. IT WAS A MESS.
Malinda Howe, local broker, diligently started communication with the owner and finally convinced him to sell. It was then a task to marry the home to the right buyer who would preserve a piece of Acworth’s history.
At last, someone stepped up for the challenge, our Mayor, Tommy Allegood. He would restore the home and build an addition. The home was completed and ready to hit the open market in August of 2018.
In April of 2019 Linda and Wesley Hardwick purchased this historic home. Recently the Hardwick’s completed a kitchen renovation adding handcrafted accents from deVol, an English based company featured on the show, For The Love of Kitchens.
2. 4520 Dallas Street
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History:
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3. 4496 Dallas Street, Circa 1907
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History:
This large craftsman bungalow referred to as the Honeymoon House was built by Lemon Awtrey, Sr in 1907 for his Atlanta debutante bride, Varah Gray Hill. The home contains 13 rooms and 4 bathrooms and features stained glass, decorative shingles, and a door with a transom and sidelights.
The Awtrey family is one of Acworth’s revered families dating back to their arrival in 1875, from opening department stores to organizing the Acworth Cotton Manufacturing Company, to being presidents of the S. Lemon Banking Co., to becoming state legislators. The impact on this city’s growth has the Awtrey name stamped everywhere. Lemon was a president of the S. Lemon Banking Company, Mayor of Acworth in 1918-19, and served as a long-time Alderman.
In the late 1930s under the financial pressures of the Great Depression, the Awtrey family was forced to develop their pastureland, and Seminole Drive became Acworth’s first in-town subdivision. Before the sale of the land, by lottery, the Awtrey’s had a grand barbecue on the property.
The home remained in the Awtrey Family until 1994. It was not until May of 2015 when Jill and Duncan Dunlop came to its rescue. The home had been a rental property for over 7 years with the property being severely neglected. Jill had grown up in Acworth, and remembers walking by the house as a child with her classmates. She attended the old Acworth School where McCall Primary is presently located. Field day and recess was always held at the playground on East Lakeshore Drive, which is just around the corner from the Honeymoon House. It was now her dream to call the honeymoon house her home.
Jill and Duncan’s goal was to move into the house by July 1. They tackled the overgrown landscaping and hired a professional arborist who canopied the tree limbs away from the house. A new roof was installed and all skylights were removed. Within two weeks, the exterior of the home had a fresh coat of paint.
The hardwood floors were refinished and now shined and gleamed. Jill and Duncan then began the interior painting process, which they chose to do themselves. Each weekend they would camp out and tackle one room at a time. The master bath and laundry room flooring were in need of replacing, as it had large holes patched over with mismatched coverings. Duncan undertook the laborious job of installing new ceramic tile flooring and subway tile on walls. The antique claw foot tub was sandblasted and reglazed. A nice period-piece replaced the old vanity, which was falling apart. Jill undertook the tedious job of removing the nine layers of paint off of the front parlor fireplace, and brought it back to its original finish – truly a labor of love.
The next big item to tackle was the kitchen. New cabinetry, countertops, flooring, backsplash were installed. A gorgeous hood cover which would forever hold the precious cow fixture referred to as Laura Bush. The silver closet which was once shelved and lined with black velvet now was the perfect pantry, accented with a whimsical screen door, and painted a gorgeous shade of blue.
Throughout the years since their ownership, they have completed the full renovation of the attic expansion and so much more!
4. 4407 Lakeview Court, Circa 1912
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History:
This Folk Victorian was built for Claude Gresham Durham (1879-1943) husband of Genia Idelle Collins (1874-1915), who was the daughter of James Felix and Mary Etta McLain Collins of Acworth.
Acworth, Georgia was still in the process of recovering after the Civil War. Albert J. Durham founded the Durham Brothers Drugstore in 1895. Two years later, his brother Claude purchased fifty percent interest in the store. Both men were well liked and leaders in the community. Durham Brothers later became Lacey Drugs, which is considered to be the oldest continually-operating pharmacy in Cobb County and among the oldest in the state of Georgia.
Claude Durham and J.E. Carnes were the first company captains of the Acworth Volunteer Fire Department organized in 1907..
The Athas bought the home in 2016 and did 5 months of renovations before moving in. Gene Pugliese, the contractor, completed extensive foundation work and removed the aluminum siding from the house.
The Athas took a wall and fireplace, the old kitchen, and the covered porch off the back and rebuilt the kitchen. Rick Hudson did the cabinets but has since retired. The kitchen pantry was the entrance to the root cellar.
The Athas converted a small bath and laundry room into the primary bathroom and took part of the front bedroom and an old bathroom addition to convert to the primary closet. When adding windows to the primary bedroom, they discovered that the framing was already there. The windows had been covered at some point. For safety reasons the Athas removed the tub in the second bathroom and added the shower in the same foot print.
The garage was added in 2018, and the front fencing was added in 2019.
The Athas are currently adding back features of the Folk Victorian style. We recently removed the front porch railing that was more Art Nouveau (1930’s) and replaced it with reclaimed decorative balusters that are more within the historical era of the house and hope to change the spindles on the staircase before the tour.
A postcard sold on EBay features a picture of the house. The post card is dated 1913. From the post card, you can see that the stained glass in the dining room is original to the house. At some point the original roof line changed.
5. 4400 Lakeview Court, Circa 2024
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