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PAGE 2, NOVEMBER 29, 2010, THE ISLANDER
Magnolia Garden Club
2010 Christmas Tour of Homes
Getting ready for the Magnolia Gar
den Club Christmas Tour of homes
took homeowners of number four on
the stop, Luann and Bob Whalen,
about four weeks.
"This is the first time our home
has been on the Christmas Tour,"
Luann said. "We love Halloween and
we throw a huge party for our 14
grandchildren. Then we went right on
into Thanksgiving, which is our favor
ite holiday, while decorating the house
for Christmas."
The Whalen's home is decorated for
Christmas upstairs and down. Many
of the ornaments and decorations hold
special family memories. The slipper
ornaments on the living room tree
were made by her great-grandfather,
who was a cobbler. Many of the decora
tions were made by Luann as well.
Both Luann and Bob love antiques
and their furnishings make this 1905
Queen Anne house a home. There are
good vibes in this house plus Bob will
have a surprise for all the visitors.
The tour is Saturday, December 4
from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Holi
day Bakery will be open 11:00 a.m. to
6:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance;
$25 the day of the tour. Group rates for
10 tickets or more $17 each.
Stop number one is The 1st United
Methodist Church. Major Urbanus
Dart donated two Old Town lots in
1854 to the Methodists for their church
which was completed in 1861.
The architectural style is High Vic
torian, Gothic Revival. The pointed
arch windows of stained glass and the
buttress supports of the side towers
help identify this structure as a fine
example of Gothic Revival with high
style elaboration.
Gothic is a very rare building style
for the southern states and so few of
these buildings remain intact today
that they are protected and almost
always put on the National Register of
Historic Places.
The Brunswick Methodist congre
gation began as a small church com
munity in 1838 and met in what we
know today as the wood frame Glynn
Academy building that is currently
being restored on Norwich Street.
Stop number two is The Sam Davis
House. Sam Davis, a shipping captain,
married Rebecca Davis, sister to local
historian Margaret Davis Cate, and
built this home as a working farm for
his large family when Bon Aire and
Johnston were tidal creeks.
The architectural style is Victorian,
Folk House, National and one of two
houses in this style on this year's tour.
The house is a gable-front-and-wing
style with a hall-and-parlor floor plan
and easily changed with the times.
It was simple, popular and family-
friendly.
Stop number five is The Lott-Parker
House another Union Street jewel,
circa 1901. This residence was built by
J. J. Lott, and stayed in the same family
until 2005. J.J. Lott was a prominent
merchant in Brunswick and owned
several stores in Glynn County.
The architectural style is eclectic
Colonial Revival. The first story win
dows are crowned with broken pedi
ments and identify the Colonial aspects
of the house.
The rounded stepped entry and
squared door and side light arrange
ment show a mixture of Neoclassical
influences that make this home part of
the Eclectic Movement.
Stop number six is The Du Big-
non House, circa 1869, also on Union
Street.
Henry Riffault Du Bignon built this
house for his wife, Alice Symons of
Savannah. The Du Bignon family was
among the millionaires who owned
Jekyll Island for four generations.
The architectural style is Victorian,
Second Empire. The boxy, Mansard
roof allows a full upper story in the
attic and is a carry-over from a time
when property taxes were levied per
story of a residence.
This style is often called “The Gen
eral Grant” style because it was popu
lar during Grant’s presidency. The
architecture is rare for the southern
states. This home has 13 rooms beau
tifully appointed with period antiques.
Careful consideration has been made
by homeowner Teresa Bronte Daniels
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Luann and Bob Whalen, dressed in period cos
tumes, are ready for the Christmas Tour
to restore the home to
it’s place as a Union
Street historic jewel.
Stop number seven,
also on Union Street, is
The Tompkins House
circa 1896-1992.
The original house
built in the late 1800s
belonged to Ward
Hale, an engineer with
B&W Railroad. Some
time after 1940 the
house burned down
and the lot remained
vacant until John and
Kay Tompkins moved
to Brunswick in 1992
and built the house to
match the neighbor
hood.
According to the
Sanborn Fire Maps
this property has
been lived on for 117
years. The original
street number was 608
Union; the street was
renumbered in 1908.
The architectural
style mimics the Folk
House, National style
that are seen on this
end of Union Street.
These lovely houses
were built as gable
front, hall-and-parlor,
asymmetrical structures that fit a nar
row city lot. But everything changes
when you walk in the front door. This
home features a modern, open floor
plan with a big family kitchen, three
bathrooms, three bedrooms and some
thing unheard of in the other homes
like this one, closets and storage space.
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