| Harris-Murrow-Trowell House | |
| Coordinates: | 32.5178°N -81.5302°W |
| Built: | 18881889 |
| Architecture: | gabled wing cottage |
| Added: | March 30, 2009 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Refnum: | 09000187 |
The Harris-Murrow-Trowell House in Screven County, Georgia was built 1889 as one of the first houses in the small village of Oliver, after Central of Georgia Railway established a stop there. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Its NRHP nomination described it as having "local significance in the area of architecture as a goodexample of a 1889 gabled wing cottage type house with an attached tenant house on the rearelevation. According to Georgia's Living Places: Historic Houses in Their Landscaped Settings,gabled wing cottages were built throughout Georgia primarily between 1875 and 1915 on farms andin Georgia's towns and cities. It was a popular house type that was built throughout the state in bothmodest and well-to-do parts of the state. The gabled wing cottage is either T-or L-shaped andusually has a gabled roof. Other than the rear addition, the Harris-Murrow-Trowell House retains itshistoric exterior and interior finishes and materials and has changed little since its construction."[1]