Tag Archives: Vernacular Architecture of Coastal Georgia
Shotgun Houses, Brunswick
Filed under --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, Brunswick GA
LaRoche House Demolished in Crescent
I’ve been photographing the house for nearly a decade. These images were made in the months leading up to its demise.
Filed under --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Crescent GA
Wayfair Primitive Baptist Church, Cox
Wayfair Primitive Baptist Church is the only representative congregation of the Alabaha Association Crawfordites in McIntosh County. It was established in 1873 but little else is known about it. It is no longer active but the cemetery is still used for burials.
Like all of the Crawfordite meeting houses, Wayfair is free of ornament and any modern creature comforts.
Members of this faith believed that such enhancements distracted from worship.
The carpentry skills of the members are on full display in each of these meeting houses, and Wayfair is no exception.
These photographs were made in 2012; they were originally posted on Vanishing South Georgia.
Filed under --MCINTOSH COUNTY GA--, Cox GA
Central Hallway House Ruins, 1894, Groveland
This house is of a form very common in late-19th-century Georgia.
Filed under --BRYAN COUNTY GA--, Groveland GA
Gable Front House, Liberty County
This is a typical house style of early-20th-century Coastal Georgia. This example is located near Midway.
Filed under --LIBERTY COUNTY GA--
Bungalow, 1940s, St. Simons Island
The property surrounding this front gable bungalow has recently been cleared, suggesting it’s likely to soon be redeveloped. This is one of just a few surviving vernacular structures in the scattered community known as Jewtown. The community got its name from the Levison brothers, who had a thriving store about a mile east of Gascoigne Bluff. They called it Levisonton but the name didn’t stick and residents referred to the area as Jewtown. Like the other two historic African-American communities on St. Simons, Harrington and South End, Jewtown is largely indistinguishable from the rest of the island today. I believe the cottage dates to circa 1940-1945, making it a relatively late construction for the community.
Filed under --GLYNN COUNTY GA--, Jewtown GA, St. Simons Island GA
