Mr. and Mrs. James Gray built the house in 1909. It stayed in the Gray family until 1920, when the property was sold to Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Hanson.
This house was built in 1888 by the Malone family. it was originally constructed as a two story square structure with 4 rooms per floor. There have been a number of additions in the 121 years that followed.
Built 1913 by Mary G. Mitchell.In the front bedroom (parlor) chimney there is a hole behind the magnolia painting. There was a chimney fire and to keep the house from burning down, they had to knock a hole in the chimney. That hole is still there.
1887 W.W. Garnett purchased the house. Mr. Garnett owned and operated a grocery store down on Bank Street. That building is no longer there.
Mr. and Mrs. James Gray built this house in 1909. It stayed in the Gray family until 1920, when the property was sold to Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Hanson.
This year's site for tour refreshments is St. John's Episcopal church, one of the most beautiful structures in Historic Decatur.
The Old State Bank remains at its original site from when it first opened in 1833. The two story sturcture sports Federal Empire period architecture which was popular in the 1830s.
The Carnegie Visual Arts Center, originally constructed in 1904 as The Carnegie Library with funding from the Carnegie Foundation. It is one of the few remaining original Carnegie Library buildings in the nation..
Emmanuel Church International now occupies the building that was home to Central Baptist Church for over a century.
The First Presbyterian Church was originally constructed on the corner of Church and Bank Streets. It was destroyed by the Union Army in 1864.
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