1866 – Hoboken, GA
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68 King St, Hoboken, GA 31542
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$49,900- 4 Bed
- 3 Bath
- 2774 Sq Ft
- 1.93 Ac.
Own a piece of Brantley County history!! This grand old home was built 1866 by A.P. Brantley the prominent business owner of whom Brantley County was named. Sellers have been told this is the oldest home in Brantley County. This home feature 92 linear feet of porch, and a attic space would double the square footage, the almost 2 acres with oak and cedar trees was a common place for the local elementary school to hold Easter egg hunts. Current sellers have made recent updates: installing a new Drain Field, tankless gas hot water heater, some wiring upgrades, hardwired smoke alarms, and new plumbing in the master bath. This home is ready for restoration.
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State: Georgia | Region: South (South Atlantic)
Period & Associated Styles: Victorian Era
Features: Neighborhood, Painted Wood | Misc: Extreme Fixer, Fixer-Uppers
Period & Associated Styles: Victorian Era
Features: Neighborhood, Painted Wood | Misc: Extreme Fixer, Fixer-Uppers
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Chestatee, GA
The exterior is beyond interesting, it’s one of the more unique homes I’ve ever seen.
Noblesville, IN
Maybe originally a rooming house: or perhaps a small community hospital?
Houses with a central cruciform hallway (more popular in the South than elsewhere, presumably to promote better ventilation) can sometimes have an institutional feel to them. The listing description states that the house was built as a home by the county’s namesake, so that would probably be easy enough to verify. I agree though, the house is big enough that it does have a feel of possibly something other than single-family use, but I think it’s probably just a big (and beautiful) house.
Yes. I remember this home as a child An I still love it
It’s beautiful! The creative use of gables — and chimney placement — has made an otherwise-conventional and symmetrical facade unusually captivating. While reflecting the local vernacular building traditions, the house also embraces the then-newly fashionable Stick style (gable embellishment) and the currently popular Italianate style (porch millwork). It’s a very happy combination of influences! While the interior appears to have had many updates since the early 20th century, there is enough original material left to guide a restoration; this house would be a great candidate for that level of effort. Drool.
I had an 1886 Victorian home. Literally the money pit. Lost it. The thing i love was the wrap porch they were wide n grand. Pray someone with a heart will salvage n live it up
Lots to like here.
I hope someone buys it and loves it up.
THAT PORCH!
so those gables are supposed to be just decorative? usually when you punch a hole in a roof for one of those it’s to let more light into a room but since that floor isn’t finished, I guess it doesn’t matter. love the porch and a great place for a bowling alley. what a fascinating place and what a price – nice.
Looks like two of them were to “camouflage” the chimneys but the others……
The chimney gables serve as crickets for the chimneys to divert rainwater from behind them, so those gables do have a utilitarian function. The two highest end gables provide ventilation or light; the others are purely decorative and are built on top of the roof without piercing it (no holes punched into the attic). Without them, however, the house would not be nearly as interesting! It really is a fascinating place.
Plano, TX
I confess with my uneducated eye, I’m having trouble making sense of the interior. would love to know the original intent of the building. Was it designed as a home, home/business, boarding house, . . . ???
Noblesville, IN
I think you’re on to something there LT.
Doesn’t seem like enough square footage for a boarding house, but the rooms seem odd, like larger rooms might have been cut down, photo #16 for example. The door on the left opens against the fireplace….The proportions just look odd. Wish they would have included plans.
I was born in May 1948. This was the home of my grandparents, Nolan & Myrtle Davis. Nolan owned the General Store in Hoboken & Myrtle was a leader in the local Baptist Church.
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omg! That porch is enough reason to own this house. Although a little too close to the road you can get a better look at the cars that pass by. I like it.
In the street view, there are large shrubs that block a lot but it does look like the porch goes all the way around…. Yeah!
The property is fenced with what appears to be mostly well maintained woven wire & some with a privacy board fence, so if you want room for your dogs to run, bet they would have a ball on this property.
There are train tracks across the road.
Very similar to the old train depot in my hometown. It’s beautiful ♡
That was EXACTLY my first thought! Slight change in the porch roof, add corbels and …poof! it’s a train station!
The date, history and/or builder are way off. Hoboken developed slowly along the railroad that was rebuilt after the Civil War. The county was named after Benjamin D. Brantley (1832-1891) who had business interests across the region that were later taken over by his son Archibald P. (1862-1937), but there’s no evidence that either man ever lived at Hoboken. Perhaps A.P. Brantley was an extraordinarily capable and prescient 4 year old, but I think it’s more likely the building was built as a hotel sometime around 1890. It’s an interesting building that could be a unique live/work space.
Interesting! Thanks for looking into the history… the plot thickens! The Stick styling of the gables does seem to be a tad early for a small town in the rural South — I could easily believe that the house was built 20 years after the stated date of 1866.
Benjamin D. Brantley moved to Blackshear (Pierce county) in 1857. Hoboken and Brantley County were established in 1920 from parts of Pierce, Wayne and Charlton Counties. There would be no record of him living in Hoboken if he passed away in 1891.
Hard not to love! the structure of the house! the price! the acres! WOW!
It almost looks like a century old train station.
My papa Greene done some work in that house years ago. It is a very beautiful home.
I would pick that house up and move back from the road as far as I could. Cool house.
Noblesville, IN
I still say originally rooming house.
Love this one. Especially love the exterior, but it would be fun to bring it back to its original beauty.