{"nrhp_refnum":"94001387","name":"Bankston, J. C., Rock House","other_names":["The Rock House","Building 510"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"901 Industrial Dr., Dobbins Air Reserve Base","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marietta","county":"Cobb County","state":"GA","lat":33.92545634800007,"lon":-84.52680092999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story English Vernacular Revival (English Cottage) style stone-veneered house at 901 Industrial Drive on Dobbins Air Reserve Base, near Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia. J.C. Bankston and his sons built it in 1938-39.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unusual and exceptional example of stone masonry construction in a Georgia rural dwelling. It is also an example of 20th-century Historical Revival architecture and of rural southern building traditions, with family-built construction and local materials. It is one of few surviving buildings from the pre-World War II farming community on the base site.","narrative":"This small stone cottage on Dobbins Air Reserve Base, near Marietta, Georgia, was built in 1938-39 by railroad engineer J.C. Bankston and his sons. J.C. Bankston, Jr., then 23 and with no architectural training, designed it with four 12-by-12-foot rooms, a front chimney, a cross-gable roof and arched openings. Hollow-core brick tile walls are veneered in uncut fieldstone set in cement so that no mortar joints show, a method the family devised after admiring a rock bungalow in Marietta. Interiors used tupelo gum wood and plaster applied directly to the tile. The Bankstons lived there only until 1942, when the Army acquired the land for an airfield and the Bell Bomber plant. The house later served as servicemen's quarters, guest quarters and base offices. It is listed for architecture as a rare Georgia stone house, a local take on the English Cottage style, and a survivor of the farming community that preceded the base. It is now vacant.","period_of_significance":"1938-1939","architect_builder":"J.C. Bankston, Jr. (Designer); J.C. Bankston, Sr., J.C. Bankston, Jr., Harold Bankston (builders)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: English Vernacular Revival (English Cottage)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed function is vacant/not in use; the form says Dobbins planned a historic rehabilitation for use as offices.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.425576-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/94001387.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207551","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/cobb-county/bankston-j-c-rock-house-94001387/"}