Smith, Archibald, House

This property in Roswell, Georgia, is a farmstead centered on a two-story, three-bay vernacular Georgian house built in 1844-1845 for Archibald Smith and his wife Anne Magill Smith. Local carpenter Denny Gentry built the heavy timber-framed house, which has clapboard siding, a wood shingle roof, a stone and brick foundation, and a simple Greek Revival entrance. Around it stand thirteen contributing outbuildings and structures, including a kitchen, corn crib, well, springhouse, carriage house and cottages, plus four noncontributing modern or rebuilt elements. The house is much plainer than the large mansions built in town by other founding families, because Smith kept to farming and agricultural experimentation. In the 1940s, descendant and architect Arthur W. Smith added the full-height portico, wiring, plumbing and heating. The City of Roswell restored parts of the property and opened it as a house museum in 1992.