{"nrhp_refnum":"95000901","name":"Frobel-Knight-Borders House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1001 Allgood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marietta","county":"Cobb County","state":"GA","lat":33.975340139000025,"lon":-84.52362532899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate country house at 1001 Allgood Road in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, built in 1869 for Col. Bushrod W. Frobel and constructed by local mechanic D. S. Malone.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare, relatively intact Georgia example of Italianate architecture built as a rural country estate. It is also tied to Col. Bushrod W. Frobel, a Reconstruction-era state Superintendent of Public Works and later Atlanta city engineer. Its second owner, Judge Noel B. Knight, was a Cobb Superior Court judge and former Marietta mayor.","narrative":"Built in 1869 on a small knoll along Allgood Road in Marietta, this two-story brick house is an asymmetrical Italianate residence with a cross-gabled roof, paired wooden eave brackets, bay windows and varied brick-arched windows. It was constructed for Col. Bushrod W. Frobel, a Confederate engineer who afterward served as Georgia's Superintendent of Public Buildings and Works and oversaw rebuilding of state buildings in Milledgeville. In 1872 he sold the house to Judge Noel B. Knight, who served on the Cobb County Superior Court and had been mayor of Marietta. The house keeps its original floor plan, doors, flooring, stairway and mantels, and later changes were modest: a 1950s garage, an enclosed rear porch and an early 1980s greenhouse. Its brick construction and country-estate character set it apart from the smaller wooden houses typical of the county, and Italianate houses of this kind are uncommon in Georgia. It remains a family residence.","period_of_significance":"1869-1887","architect_builder":"Unknown Architect, unless Mr. Frobel himself.","architectural_style":"LATE VICTORIAN/Italianate","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; the main house is the only contributing building, with two noncontributing modern storage garages; a greenhouse added in the early 1980s blocks the traditional main entrance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.106456-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/95000901.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207577","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobel-Knight-Borders_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55612120"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/cobb-county/frobel-knight-borders-house-95000901/"}