James Alonzo Brannen House

James Alonzo Brannen House
The house in 2017
Location 112 S. Main St./US 301
Coordinates 32°26′46″N 81°47′00″W / 32.44625°N 81.78335°W / 32.44625; -81.78335Coordinates: 32°26′46″N 81°47′00″W / 32.44625°N 81.78335°W / 32.44625; -81.78335
Area less than one acre
Built 1881
MPS Downtown Statesboro MPS
NRHP reference # 89001154[1]
Added to NRHP September 6, 1989

The James Alonzo Brannen House is a house built in 1881 in Statesboro, Georgia. It is notable as the oldest residence in the town and for its association with lawyer J. A. Brannen (1858-1923), for whom it was built, and who served as the town's first mayor. It now houses the Statesboro Chamber of Commerce.

The house is a single-story frame house with an L-shaped plan. Its porch, with four columns on brick piers, was added c.1917.

Brannen founded the Statesboro Eagle and Statesboro News newspapers, and he owned and developed property that is now in the West Main Street Commercial Historic District.

It has some elements of Late Victorian / Queen Anne style, such as its fish-scale shingles on the end and front gables.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1989.[1]

Statesboro was the subject of a wider survey of historic resources completed at the same time as the NRHP nomination for the district.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Registration: James Alonzo Brannen House". National Park Service. April 11, 2017. With photos.
  3. ↑ Janice E. Adams and Richard Cloues (July 12, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Historic Resources of Downtown Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia". National Park Service. Retrieved April 11, 2017.


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