The Archibald Smith Plantation Home is a

historic house A historic house generally meets several criteria before being listed by an official body as "historic." Generally the building is at least a certain age, depending on the rules for the individual list. A second factor is that the building be in ...

Roswell, Georgia Roswell is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States. At the official 2010 census, the city had a population of 88,346. The 2020 estimated population was 94,884, making Roswell the state's ninth largest city. A close suburb of Atla ...

, built in 1845. The home was built by one of Roswell's founders,

Archibald Smith Archibald Smith of Jordanhill (10 August 1813, in Greenhead, North Lanarkshire – 26 December 1872, in London) was a Scots-born barrister and amateur mathematician. Early life and education He was the only son of James Smith FRSE (178 ...

, and housed three generations of his family.

Background

The home was restored by the third generation, Arthur and Mary Smith, in 1940. The home was sold to the City of Roswell in 1986 and opened to the public as a house museum in 1991. In addition to the home, the grounds include a guest house, slave quarters,

cookhouse A cookhouse is a small building where cooking takes place. Often found at remote work camps, they complemented the bunkhouse and were usually found on ranches that employed cowboys, or loggers in a logging camp. Prior to the 20th century, cookho ...

, carriage house, barn, spring house and

water well A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. Th ...

. The plantation was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2006.

References

External links

Official Archibald Smith Home website
Antebellum architecture Houses completed in 1845 Roswell, Georgia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Georgian architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Plantation houses in Georgia (U.S. state) Historic house museums in Georgia (U.S. state) Farm museums in Georgia (U.S. state) Museums in Fulton County, Georgia Tourist attractions in Roswell, Georgia National Register of Historic Places in Roswell, Georgia Houses in Fulton County, Georgia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Slave cabins and quarters in the United States {{GeorgiaUS-museum-stub