American Architecture Papers

Scope and Content
A course on American Architecture is offered periodically at the State University of West Georgia. The architecture course is taught by Dr. Ann McCleary, Director of the Center for Public History. The American Architecture Papers collection contains research papers written by students in the course during various semesters, as well as forms, newspaper articles, maps and other information pertaining to a 1977 architectural survey of Carroll County. The two maps are (1) a state map provided by the Georgia State Department of Transportation and (2) a City of Carrollton map provided by the Chattahoochee-Flint Area Planning and Development Commission.
Almost all of the research papers in the collection are studies of the identifying architectural styles of individual properties or structures in Carroll County. Exceptions to this include examination of a mill village in Coweta County and a more general study within one paper of three different mill villages in Carroll County. The quality of research varies tremendously within the collection, but grades and evaluations of the research papers have been removed out of concern for the privacy of the students who donated their work to the Center for Public History.
This collection is on-going, meaning that it will expand as more students conduct research on architecture.

Box and Folder Listing
At present, the collection is held in two Hollinger boxes. Folders each contain one research paper with accompanying materials. Exceptions to this are folders at the back of the box that contain some student field trip evaluations and materials related to a 1977 architectural survey of Carroll County. Folders containing research papers are arranged in alphabetical order according to the last name of the author of the paper:

• Course Syllabi and Related Items
• Becker, Julie. “Smith-Austin-Walls Home.” (Carrollton)
• Bentley, Laurie. “Beck-Freeman House.” (Carrollton)
• Bostwick, Heather. “2031 Old Newnan Road, Carrollton.”
• Chambers, Helen. “Whitesburg Baptist Church, 1875-Present.” (‘Present’ is 1999)
• Davis, Ellen. “Farm Located at 125 Fuller Drive.” (Carrollton)
• Gibson, Carolyn. “Main Street, Bowden, Georgia.”
• Harman, Bobbi. “John Tweedell Home, Bowden, Georgia.”
• Harman, Tammy. “Wadsworth Home.” (Carrollton)
• Helms, Jeffrey. “Carrollton Train Depot.”
• Hopper, Katie. “Weems O. Baskin Home.” (Carrollton)
• James, Beatrice. “202 M.L. King Street.” (Carrollton)
• Kitchens, Christopher. “Marilyn Lynch House, 325 College Street.” (Carrollton)
• Lapczynski, Rebecca. “The Roopville Store and Its Place in Southern Society.”
• Mabry, Douglas. “Oak Lawn (1411 Rome Street), Carrollton.”
• Mabry, Douglas. “Depot Project.” (Carrollton)
• Mehaffey, Angela. “History of Carrollton’s Longview Street.”
• Plese, Melissa. “The 1920s Home.” (Carrollton)
• Thomas, Sonjia. “M.E.V. Spence House.” (Carroll County)
• Wells, Pagett. “History of Peachtree City.”
• Williams, Arden. “In the Light at Last: Paternalism, the Mill Village, and Carrollton, Georgia.”
• Wilson, Katherine. “104 Gordon Street, Villa Rica.”
• Wilson, Mark. “The Mill Village of Sargent, Georgia”
• Woodruff, Brooke. “127 South Street, Carrollton.”
• Field Trip Evaluations
• Carroll County survey
• Maps (2) for historic sites survey binder

Search terms/Key words
Carroll County; Carrollton; Coweta County; architecture; vernacular architecture; textile mills; mill village life; merchants;

Separate materials
Photographs, drawings, and other materials accompanying research papers remain in folders with research papers. Two oversized maps are folded and contained in a labeled folder.