Atlanta-Frasier Street Historic District

Atlanta and Frasier Streets in Marietta hold a small neighborhood of 17 historic houses built between the 1840s and about 1930. It is what remains of a larger residential area cut off from its neighbors by the Georgia Highway 120 Loop in the early 1980s. The oldest buildings are the Greek Revival Bostwick-Fraser House and Slaughter House. Later houses include the Queen Anne Alexander Stephens Clay House, Folk Victorian cottages, gabled ell houses, and Colonial Revival and Craftsman homes. Early residents included merchants, a physician and politicians, among them a U.S. Senator and his son, a mayor and state senator. Large landholdings were gradually subdivided as Marietta grew with the railroad and a trolley line. Tree-lined streets, uniform setbacks and open lawns give the area a park-like New South landscape. The Bostwick-Fraser House served as a Federal hospital in the summer of 1864, one of few documented in Georgia.