Southern Style

Deep verandas, high ceilings, many fireplaces, sweeping staircases, music rooms, parlors, and mahogany pocket doors characterize the South’s unique style at the turn of the Twentieth century. With white clapboard, Greek columns, and dark green shutters, these types of southern homes are found throughout the region.

Constructed in 1905 in a small Georgia town known for its lumber industry, Judge Hendrix and his wife, Mary, designed and built this home where they lived for more than forty-five years and reared six children. Following World War Two, the judge went fishing with a friend who agreed to buy the house and all its contents. Judge Jendrix’s wife had died and their children had moved away. The judge, too, was going to move and take up residence in Atlanta with one of his children. He would only be taking a few keepsakes with him. Everything else would be left in the house.

The new owner, a civil engineer, his wife, who was a nurse, and their two daughters moved into the big five-bedroom house with its wrap-around veranda, ornamental porch lights (see picture below), and dark mahogany furniture throughout. Furniture and furnishings also included large gilt-edged mirrors throughout, upholstered settees, slipper chairs, and plant stands where beautiful walking Iris cascaded blooming tendrils to the floor (see picture below). There were four-poster rice beds and hand-painted French children’s armoires with matching chairs and lamp tables.

When the engineer and nurse’s daughters had had their weddings in the house and the couple had been called back to their family home in a small historic South Carolina town, they packed up the contents of the big Georgia house and moved. Years later, the furniture and furnishings from this beautiful Georgia house were passed down to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It was these family heirlooms that inspired Amelia Price, our firm’s president, to start Pricelli.

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