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This three-story
commercial building bears a Richardsonian Romanesque style front facade.
A large round-arched entrance frames the deeply recessed doorway, which
features rough hewn stone, a flat lintel, a radiating voussoir segmental
arch, and flanking windows. Two string courses divide the second and third
stories. Three Italinate stone-arch windows form the bays separated by
Doric brickwork pilasters. A double-triangulated, pediment dormer caps
the four stone brackets of the projecting cornice. Pyramidal turrets accent
the mansard roof. The original interior floor plan, still intact, has two
rooms with a side wall stairwell.
In 1858 William T. Stark purchased the site, which then contained a
brick store, from John I. Huggins. In 1862 Thomas Bishop acquired the property.
A value increase in the tax records for 1886 suggest that the present facade
was added that year. The Atlanta National Building and Loan Association
bought the property in 1891 and subsequently sold it in 1928 to the National
Bank of Athens. Charles Parrott & Associates occupied the building
in the 1930s and eventually purchased it in 1950. In 1975 the third floor
was adaptively restored as a townhouse apartment. |