Terrell-Sadler House

Set on 7.80 acres along Harmony Road in Putnam County, Georgia, this one-story, five-bay Greek Revival house was built around 1855 for William D. Terrell and his wife Mary Sadler Terrell. It was the main house of a plantation that held about 700 acres and 20 enslaved people in 1855. The house has a pedimented portico with Greek Doric columns that swell slightly at the center and rest directly on the porch floor, as in the Greek rather than Roman order. A dentil cornice circles the building, and heavy door, window and fireplace surrounds repeat throughout the six principal rooms. Its triple-pile plan is unusual in Georgia. The property also includes a family cemetery begun in 1865, a 1930s barn and corn crib, and a saddlebag house moved from Eatonton in 1994. The architect or builder is unknown. The house was rehabilitated in the 1990s, and the work received federal certification in 1998.