The Calvin W. Parr House is located at 227 Bloomfield Street (Tax Parcel No. 17-1-C3-B-005).
 

This Queen Anne style cottage is a one-story frame building covered with clapboard. The house utilizes a central hall with irregular massing. Sunburst designs embellish three of the five gables; the two rear gables display louvered vents instead. Porches on the facade, rear, and north elevation feature slender chamfered porch columns and scrollwork balustrades. A projecting room with a bay window is located to the right of the entrance, which features a door with an arched, etched glass panel. Elaborate stenciling on the interior walls and ceilings create geometric patterns and classical motifs in brilliant colors. The kitchen ell, composed of the originally detached kitchen and an enclosed breezeway, extends to the rear of this private residence.

Calvin W. Parr was the first owner of this building constructed in 1889. His father, Benjamin H. Parr, a craftsman who painted houses in Athens as early as 1851, had seven sons who became house and sign painters and allied craftsmen such as glaziers, paper hangers, stencilers, decorators, and paint manufacturers. The brothers composed the well established Parr Brothers firm, which operated until 1904. Calvin W. Parr, the senior member of the firm, specialized in stenciling and wall painting. He decorated this home and was responsible for the stenciling, the only known extant example in Athens of this once popular form of interior decoration.

The Calvin W. Parr House was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (GA-2103) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (September 9, 1982).