The Reid–Jones–Carpenter House, located at 2249 Walton Way, Augusta,

Richmond County, Georgia Richmond County is located in the state of Georgia in the U.S. As of the 2020 census, the population was 206,607. It is one of the original counties of Georgia, created on February 5, 1777. Following an election in 1995, Augusta (the count ...

, constructed in 1849, is a single story wood-frame building on raised basement of

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ed brick. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1979.

Architecture

The house features an entrance portico supported by fluted Corinthian-inspired columns based at ground level and reached by a long stairway. The porch is enclosed by a balustrade. Windows flanking the portico have wrought iron ledges. Formerly known as "Montrose", the home is now the Alan Fuqua Center for young people, associated with the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church. In the mid-1900s, it was the home of Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter, son of the Rev. Samuel B. Carpenter and Ruth (Jones) Carpenter, and grandson of Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., distinguished lawyer, author, and historian.John Linley: "Montrose Reid–Jones–Carpenter House" in ''The Georgia catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey, A Guide to the Architecture of the State'', National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 1983, p. 280.

References

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