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Crestwood (Valdosta, Georgia)

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Built
  
1915

NRHP Reference #
  
84001147

Area
  
5 ha

Added to NRHP
  
12 January 1984

Built by
  
William G. Eager, Sr.

Opened
  
1915

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

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Location
  
502 Eager Rd., Valdosta, Georgia

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Crestwood is a historic home in Valdosta, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984. It is located at 502 Eager Road. The home was designed by William G. Eager and built in 1915. The home includes five bedrooms and four bathrooms on 2.51 acres. It was for sale in 2013. The columns and some other materials were salvaged from partially burned home at 701 North Patterson Street. Crestwood's west wing was added in 1928. It includes a library, two bedrooms upstairs, a bathroom, and closets. The home was renovated and the kitchen updated in 1982 according to designs by Richard Hill of Valdosta. The home was part of a pecan plantation. It includes a two-story columned portico and a porte-cochere on the east side. The library has a large limestone fireplace.

William Eager designed a sawed-off shotgun used in trench warfare during World War I.

Its front yard remained a pecan grove in 1983.

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Crestwood (Valdosta, Georgia) Wikipedia