James Henry and Rachel Kilby House

The James Henry and Rachel Kilby House was built around 1898[2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1] It is located at 28 Tumbling Waters Lane in rural Rabun County, Georgia in the Persimmon community (try Persimmon, Georgia), about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Clayton.[2]

James Henry and Rachel Kilby House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Clayton, Georgia
Coordinates	34.94404°N 83.49453°W / 34.94404; -83.49453
Area	less than one acre
Built	1898
Built by	James Henry Kilby
Architectural style	I-House
NRHP reference No.	05000078[1]
Added to NRHP	February 24, 2005

The house is a two-story I-house with a rear, gabled ell one-and-a-half-stories tall. It had a hall-parlor plan. It rests upon locust and chestnut wood piers in the front, and upon a pine sill atop support stones in the rear.[2]

In 2005, the house was still covered with its original unpainted yellow poplar shiplap siding.[2]

A second contributing building on the property is the barn built at the same time as the house, built of hand-hewn pine, oak, and locust logs, upon a continuous stone foundation. Gables at each end have yellow poplar siding; it has a standing seam metal roof. It is of a type commonly called a transverse crib barn in Georgia, and has cribs on each side of a wide runway.[2]

The street on which it is located (named Tumbling Waters Lane in the National Register documentation) may have been renamed, or may also be named, Patterson Gap Road.[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Holly L. Anderson; Susan Rogers; Catherine Sale (January 5, 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: James Henry and Rachel Kilby House". National Park Service. Retrieved November 21, 2019. Includes plans. With accompanying 15 photos from 2004
3. Patterson Gap Road is the name showing in Google maps, with map data dated 2019, as of November 21, 2019.