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Couple Loves 'Quirky' House

The Rollins family left their dream house after an old home on Powder Springs Street went on the market.

Carmen Rollins has a quirky house.

For example, a door between two bedrooms in the home on Powder Springs Street in Hiram was closed and boarded up rather than being taken out and sheetrocked over. Rollins and her husband left it because they liked it.

“It’s a quirky house, but we love it,” Rollins said. “It’s got a lot of old character.”

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The Rollins’ house was built in the 1930s or 1940s on what was at that time farmland. The name of the person who had the house built and the number of acres the property originally had is unknown. Now, though, the Rollins’ have 1 acre.

“All those new houses that were built around us, I guess that was part of the farmland,” Rollins said. “We still have some of the pasture grass in our yard.”

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The home is a “shotgun” style structure with a long hallway running the length of the residence and rooms on either side. On the right side is the living room, and the room behind it is dining room, which used to be kitchen. The kitchen used to be the old porch, and under the kitchen is the old well. A bathroom also has been added on the back side of the house. The house has three bedrooms, one of which is currently being used as an office.

“It could have possibly had another one, and they might have made one out of two because of the way that weird door is, but we’re not really sure,” Rollins said. “We’ve not seen a floor plan of what it looked like before.”

The house still has features indicative of when it was built, such as small closets, original fireplaces, windows with deep windowsills, high ceilings, and wide molding around the doors and floors.

“It’s a good, sturdy house,” Rollins said.

The Rollins’ had already bought their dream house when this house was put on the market.

“He thought I would get over it,” Rollins said of her husband when she told him she wanted to buy the old house. “We went over there that night and put a contract on it. I’d been looking for an old house and none had come up.”

The home is well-known throughout the community. Rollins said that after word got out that she and her husband were buying the house, various people told them they used to play at the house when they were kids.

“Everybody in Hiram must have played in that house when they were kids,” Rollins said. “It’s just something we’ve heard so many times.”

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