With the weather getting to the hot stage in Georgia these days, here’s a photograph that has a cooling feeling. There are few clues, and so this might be a difficult photo problem to solve. Send your best guess to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
Several readers recognized the Mystery Photo, this time a local photo. Mary Sims of Lawrenceville wrote that it was the restored 1827 Isaac Adair House. It was originally built at the corner of Hurricane Shoals Road and Pike Street in Lawrenceville. After being relocated to Chandler Road in the 1980s, it was moved a second time adjacent to the Lawrenceville Female Seminary.” The photograph came from Fitzgerald’s Brian Brown’s Vanishing Georgia series.
Other recognizing the photo include Michael Green, Milton; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Bob Foreman, Lilburn; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex.; and George Graf, Palmyra, Va.
Graf wrote of Issac Adair: “He made his mark in the Gwinnett County community during the years of 1824-1844. He arrived from South Carolina in 1824 and settled in Lawrenceville. One of the oldest houses in Gwinnett County, the Isaac Adair House, was built circa 1827 near the intersection of what is now Pike Street and Hurricane Shoals Road. It was disassembled and moved to Chandler Road starting in 1984. Gwinnett County agreed to move and preserve the historic structure when it bought the land for the Sugarloaf Parkway extension construction project in 2008. The home is well constructed and represents a building style found in the southern states from 1780-1820. The architectural style is considered to be both Federal (Adam) and Georgian.”
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