Hogan-Arnold House804 E. Main Street, Hogansville
This photo is included in our Travels Through Troup County: A Guide to Its Architecture and History. This 1897 Victorian house has many Steamboat Gothic features including captain's wheels on the front, side gables, and the porch. The wraparound porch has a spindle frieze and turned post railings with a conical roof gazebo attached to the east end. The porch is reminiscent of the steamboats which plied the Mississippi and other rivers. Victorians were fond of bringing nature to the house and this porch provided a sheltered place to enjoy its beauty.
Wilber Trimble chose to build this frame house even though he was the owner of Trimble brickyard just north of Hogansville, GA. R. D. Cole Company of Newnan constructed the house. This home is said to have been the first home in Hogansville designed by an architect. Current theory is that Alexander C. Bruce, an architect from Nashville, TN, and later Atlanta, designed this house. He designed the LaGrange First Methodist Church about the same time and may have been a friend of Mrs. Pearl Trimble. The Hogan family purchased the home in 1917 and raised eight children here. The house has undergone extensive renovations since being purchased by the Arnolds in the 1980s.
Photo by John Lawrence, Professor of Art at LaGrange College.
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