4831 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, Georgia. County/parish: De Kalb.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 09, 2009. NRIS 09000585.
6 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Donaldson-Bannister House and Cemetery, near Dunwoody, Georgia, is a historic property that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The house has also been known as Chesnut House.
The listing included six contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site, on 2.8 acres (1.1 ha).
The house was built c. 1870 for William J. Donaldson as a Plantation Plain-type building, and a rear ell was added in the 1880s. In 1935, the ell was changed considerably by owner Lois Patillo Bannister, who hired architect Francis Palmer Smith to implement changes consistent with then-popular 20th-century Colonial Revival style.
The house itself is considered significant as an "excellent example of the thorough application of Colonial Revival-style elements". The cemetery is also considered an "excellent example of a family cemetery" in rural agricultural landscape architecture.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207765