Summers Street Historic District

Summers Street in Kennesaw, Georgia, preserves a short row of late-nineteenth-century houses on about six acres between South Main Street and West Road. Most stand on the southwest side of the street and share a similar setback and scale on small lots. They are modest one- and two-story frame buildings, with Queen Anne, Eastlake and Craftsman detailing. A farmhouse on a knoll at the southern end marks the historic edge of town and has an updated Craftsman-style porch. The street follows part of the old Cassville Road, one of the town's nineteenth-century wagon roads, and the district is described as a smaller counterpart to the Cherokee Street area. Some of the houses are among the most elaborately detailed in Kennesaw. Two were built by sons of Civil War-era merchant John W. "Bacon" Hill, and another remains in the family of Major Hiram Butler, an early Big Shanty settler. Two later buildings, a repair shop and a contemporary house, are counted as intrusions.