Athens, Georgia is nicknamed the "Classic City" because many of its buildings are similar to that of classic Greek architecture. Many of the houses built by these antebellum Athenians still survive. For example, Ross Crane, a contractor who built the university's Greek revival-style chapel (1832), constructed a mansion just west of the downtown area; it is now used as a fraternity house. Also on the west side of town, Robert Taylor built a Greek revival-style house with thirteen columns, one for each of the original thirteen colonies. Now known as the Taylor-Grady House, it was the boyhood home of "New South" spokesman Henry W. Grady and is designated a National Historic Landmark. John Addison Cobb, a wealthy plantation owner who moved to Athens in 1824, created the town's first suburb, Cobbham, in 1834. It is one of several Athens neighborhoods listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Athens - New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved May 11, 2009)
From the description of Greek Renaissance houses in Athens, Georgia : a brief study of, 1965, March. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 320773366
