The Cason and Virginia Callaway Home
The Cason and Virginia Callaway home has 57 acres with a rustic style main home, 8 outbuildings, a lake and lily ponds. The Atlanta architectural Firm of Ivey and Crook designed the main house in 1931 as a hunting lodger Cason’s brother Fuller E. Callaway. It was designed in the manner of the Adirondack camps of the late 19th and early 20th century . The one and a half story house is clad in saddle-etched pine logs that were harvested on the land. The roof is covered with pine shingles and supported by pine-log brackets and there is no architectural ornament apart from the unseen logs.
The core of the floor plan, as built in 1931, is H shaped with bedrooms, kitchen, and bathrooms at either end and a living room in the center. The living room has 2 massive granite fireplaces and opens onto a terrace above Lake Ida. Like the exterior, the interior is finished in split pine logs. Hewn and unseen logs form everything from the massive exposed trusses that support the roof to the stairs and balusters to the fireplace mantels.
In making the someplace a year round residence, Cason, in the late 1930s, hired Ivy and Crook to complete the upstairs den, reconfigure bathrooms and fireplaces, enlarge the kitchen, and add a bedroom wing the the northwest side of the house.
Cason Callaway
The outbuildings were also designed by Ivy and Crook. These included a rock office (1937), stone garage (1936), guest cottage (early 1930s), servants quarters (1931), tenant house (mid 1930s), and a lily pond (1931).
This was the Callaway’s main home from the mid 1930s until Virginia’s death in 1995. It is located on the foot of the Pine Mountain ridge. A stone paved drive connects the house to Georgia Highway 116.
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