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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1925/00/00 Joe Webb Carpenter James Baldwin from Anderson, builds himself a rustic-style 1.5 story log house. Carpenter Joe Webb will go on to build an important series of summer houses in Highlands during the interwar period using Baldwin cottage as his prototype.
1925/00/00 James J Baldwin Architect, Home James Baldwin from Anderson, builds himself a rustic-style 1.5 story log house. Carpenter Joe Webb will go on to build an important series of summer houses in Highlands during the interwar period using Baldwin cottage as his prototype.
1930/07/24 James J Baldwin Former Owner After James Baldwin and Caroline Elizabeth Baldwins marriage ends in divorce, Caroline sells their summer house for $2,000 to the Bank of Walhalla.
1931/08/08 William Chambers Coker Home Dr William Chambers Coker buys the Baldwin cabin and uses it as a summer house from 1931 to his death, the principal landscape development of the property, after the creation of the northwest lawn and its stone wall, probably dates to Coker's ownership.
1966/00/00 Grotesques are salvaged from Woodhaven, the estate of Mr and Mrs Robert F Maddox on Pace's Ferry Road in Atlanta. The English Tudor-style home was ravaged by a fire then demolished to build the present Governor's Mansion for the State of Georgia.

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Particulars for Baldwin-Coker Cottage:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Historic Event
Owner Private
Architectural Category Rustic
Area of Significance Science
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 9th May 2003

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Baldwin--Coker Cottage
Registry Address: 226 Lower Lake Rd.
Registry Number: 03000390
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: Baldwin, James John; Web, Joe
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Rustic
Area in Acres: 1
Contributing Buildings: 1
Contributing Sites: 1
Non-Contributing Structures: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture, Science
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1925, 1931
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Secondary structure

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