LOCAL HERITAGE
I have been in the gracious home
Left: Now renovated and open as the McRitchie-Hollis Museum, the Jackson Street home was built in the late 1930s by E.H. Peniston and his wife, Mildred Arnall Peniston, and designed by well-known architect Kennon Perry.
that is now the McRitchie-Hollis Museum several times and seen it in three incarnations. My first visit was in the late 1970s. I was an intern at The Newnan Times-Herald running an errand. I remember that Emeline Thomasson (now Loughlin) greeted me at the door – neither of us knowing we would become friends and work together on community projects in the years to come. I remember being there a couple of times during its service as offices for Newnan Hospital.
Written and Photographed by winston skinner
At the time of these 1904s photos, the house was valued at $25,000 — a considerable sum at the time. The next home on the block in value was worth $6,000.
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