Trisha Shetty (Editor)

Tate House (Tate, Georgia)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Built
  
1926

Opened
  
1926

Phone
  
+1 770-735-3122

Added to NRHP
  
17 May 1974

NRHP Reference #
  
74000700

Area
  
4 ha

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Tate House (Tate, Georgia)

Address
  
61 Georgia Marble Rd, Tate, GA 30177, USA

Similar
  
Sharp Mountain Vineyards, Old Governor's Mansion, Holliday‑Dorsey‑Fife House, Rhodes Hall, Fitzpatrick Hotel

The Tate House is an historic property east of Tate, Georgia on Georgia State Route 53, built for Colonel Samuel Tate in 1923. Designed by Walker and Weeks, architects in the Neo-Classical style, the home is made of pink and white marble supplied by Tate's Georgia Marble Company, and sometimes called the "Pink Palace". Tate was president of the marble company.

The Tate House is two stories, rectangular, with a hipped roof, two interior chimneys, and a pedimented tetrastyle front entrance portico. At the rear is a slightly projecting pedimented section with a one story portico. The interior features excellent mural wallpaper and parquet marble floors.

In 1974, Mr. Columbus J. and Mrs. Ann (Laird) Southerland bought the house; it was added to the National Register of Historic Placeson May 17, 1974. A ten year restoration project was completed, and it was opened to the public in 1985.

In January 2001, the estate was purchased by Holbrook Properties, LP. Lois Holbrook and Marsha Mann plan to continue the restoration of the mansion and gardens.

References

Tate House (Tate, Georgia) Wikipedia