Location Information
(for the Benjamin H. Carter House)
Name:Benjamin H. Carter House
Address:210 Ferrill Street, South
City/County:Quitman, Clarke County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:c.1911
Architectural Styles(s):Colonial Revival
No. of Stories:1
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:20 May 1994
NR District Name:Quitman Downtown - Mill (2016)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:74
    MPS:Historic Resources of Clarke County
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Context/Comments
A one-story wood-frame house with a modest Colonial Revival character.

This house was individually listed on the National Register on 20 May 1994, from a nomination prepared by consultant Susan Enzweiller, as a component of the "Historic Resources of Clarke County" multiple-property submission. It was later included as a previously-listed element (element #74) in the Quitman Downtown-Mill Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 6 September 2016.
Brief Description
A one-story wood-frame house with a modest Colonial Revival character. A symmetrical square box with an integral wraparound porch on three elevations. The porch features attenuated Tuscan columns and a turned spindle balustrade. The one-and-one-half story, 3 by 5 bay house is of frame construction with novelty siding wall treatment and rests on brick piers with brick infill between them. The complex roof is punctuated by large gables on the front and side elevations and an interior corbelled brick chimney. The windows are wood frame and a majority have a one over one DHS configuration. In the porch area, on the front facade, is a central, single-leaf wood door with a large oval light capped by a single light transom and flanked by one over one DHS wood windows. Above, on the main roof, is a gable featuring returns, a triangular attic vent and a paired window, sheltered by a decorative metal awning. The porch area on the west (side) elevation, the porch is partially enclosed.
Historic Information
This Colonial Revival house is attributed to George Carlson, a builder from Quitman. He constructed the house in 1911-1912 for Benjamin Harvey Carter(1878-1961). About this time, Carter was retiring as sheriff of Clarke County and going into the mercantile business in Quitman with his cousin Jeff Carter. He sold his share of the business in 1918 and became the vice-president and cashier for the Bank of Quitman. He was elected president in 1931 and held that position until his death in 1961 (Carmen Culpepper Hammack interview, 6 June 1993 and C. C. Hammack letter to SME, 8 June 1993).