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Walter Bowman House • Built
in 1908 this house is restrained in its use of ornamentation but displays
its Victorian heritage in the decorative soffits, the hexagonal main
rooms and gabled porch entrance. |
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Hodges House • This house has
a wraparound front porch and front-facing twin gables with arched
windows. Below them is scroll sawn decorative trim and corner brackets
over semi-hexagonal bay windows. |
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Dr. Ide Johnson House • Also
restrained in its design, the ornamentation is incorporated into the
brackets supporting the roof overhang and the arched window under
the front gable. |
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Dr. Fred Moomau House • Another
well-maintained home complete with a corner tower containing arched
windows, two-story bay window projection, paired porch support columns,
curved balustrades and elaborately carved trim within the pedimented
cross gable of the porch entry. |
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Dr. Preston Boggs House • An
elaborate expression of the Queen Anne style with its striking polygonal
turret and the expansive porch with its gazebo-like extension, its
openings framed by the trussed uprights with lattice above and spindled
railings below. Also notable is the second floor balcony framed in
a similar manner. |
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M. K. Boggs House • A pre-Victorian
house that was remodeled in the Victorian era. The small front porch
— necessitated by its proximity to the street — is compensated
with highly intricate railings, brackets and bargeboards. The gable
ends of the main roof project over brick-faced bays, which themselves
are recessed under a brick projection. |
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Ernest Bowman House • A well-maintained
edifice with many Victorian features including a hipped and gabled
roof line, second floor porches, and decorative shingles at the gable
ends along with trussed spires. Brackets of many different shapes
abound at the tops of all supports. |
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McCoy House • Built by slave
labor in 1848, this house reflects the influence of the Greek Revival
style of architecture as exemplified by the entrance columns and lintel.
The back of the house has an attached ell with two stories of porches
and a detached slave quarters. |
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Anderson House • A superb example
of the Queen Anne architectural style, this house features an octagonal
tower with a graceful dome, porches enclosed with distinctive circular
openings, elaborate spindlework and ornate brackets. The gabled roof
is topped with a cast iron ridge cap that is highly ornamented. |
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Alice McCoy House • Rebuilt
to original plans after the fire of 1924, this house is less ornamented
than the original may have been. For example, the expansive wraparound
porch is without railings. An unusual aspect of the house is the hip
roof with four dormers facing in opposite directions. The dormers
are fenestrated with Palladian windows. |
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Hiner House • A fairly straightforward,
unornamented house without typical Victorian embellishments. The porch
columns echo a Greek portico and the second floor and attic dormers
on the hip roof add to the eclectic mix of facades that face the passersby. |
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Johnson House • This brick house
is another of the less elaborate houses on the tour, but there are
touches of Victorian flourish in the matching cross-braced gable ends
over the porch entrance and the roof above. Decorative millwork also
frames the third-story window facing the street. |
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Thomas Bowman House • A well-maintained,
elegant home with a curvilinear front porch, projecting bays with
decorative pilasters, overhanging gables and a railing on the porch
roof. A symmetrical appearance is not typical of the Queen Anne architectural
style. |
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Priest Mill
• The waterwheel that powered
woodworking and wool carding machinery in this building also turned
a generator that brought electricity to Franklin when many of the
homes on this tour were being built. The design of this building was
based on functionality rather than any architectural style. |
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Samuel Priest House •
This 4-gabled house has elaborate brackets supporting the roof
overhang and decorative shingles employed as a background to
the triple-arched narrow window under the end gable facing the
road. |
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