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Jeb Arp, Realtor, 611 Turner McCall Boulevard, Rome, GA (2026)

08/27/2026

TWO MORE OPEN HOUSES :: SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 | 1–3 PM 🏡

We had so much fun last Saturday, we're doing it again—with two different homes to tour!

📍 42 Summer Club Drive — Come see Jeb
Nearly new and completely move-in ready, this home offers an easy alternative to waiting months for new construction. Plus, Summer Club offers something that's still surprisingly hard to find in Rome—a neighborhood pool! 🏊

📍 26 Nicklaus Drive — Come see Katie
Need more room? This beautifully maintained Berry Forest home offers 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths and three finished levels, including a main-level primary suite, bonus room, office, finished basement, and incredible storage. The beautifully landscaped backyard even adjoins a public buffer for added privacy. 🌳

Saturday, August 29 | 1–3 PM

Stop by one or make the rounds and tour both! Jeb will be at Summer Club and Katie will be at Nicklaus. We'd love to see you.

Jeb Arp & Katie Edwards
Toles Temple & Wright
🏢☎️706.291.0202
🤷🏻‍♂️📱706.802.7512
💁🏻‍♀️📱678.446.6266

08/27/2026

This c.1890 cottage in Rome showcases many original decorative elements, such as a striking box bay window with a hipped roof and a round decorative vent above. Beyond the gingerbread trim and detailed spindlework porch lies an oversized front door with an accompanying transom, perfectly scaled to the interior’s soaring 12-foot ceilings. Inside, period details continue with original transom doors, wide heart pine flooring, and plaster walls laid out around a central hall. Respectfully renovated over the last decade, the home is outfitted with an impressive collection of beautiful antiques and original art.

This is just one of the private homes that will be featured on our Fall Ramble to Rome and Floyd County, September 25-27.

Rambles feature exclusive tours and social events in historic properties not usually open to the public. Tours of historic homes and buildings are self-guided and self-paced, and guests provide their own transportation. Maps and programs are provided at packet pick-up. You can pick and choose which sites to tour and see them in any order you like! Catered meals are offered as part of registration packages; however, there are tour-only (no meals) options as well.
https://www.georgiatrust.org/tours-events/fall-ramble/

📅September 25-27, 2026
📍Rome and Floyd County
🎟️georgiatrust.org

08/26/2026

This house isn't where it's supposed to be.

Drive through Subligna today and you'd probably assume this magnificent Victorian-era Italianate house had been sitting among these trees for well over a century.

It hasn't.

Until 1979, it stood at 401 East First Avenue in Rome.

When the property faced demolition, most major contractors said the house couldn't be moved. It was simply too large, too complicated, too much.

Ollie Scoggins apparently wasn't interested in that answer.

Workers spent months taking the house apart. The tower was removed by crane. Sections of the roof came down. The structure was separated, loaded onto flatbed trailers, carried to Chattooga County, and painstakingly reassembled on a new foundation.

And they saved an extraordinary amount of the original house: nearly 40 windows, more than 50 doors, original glass, 13-foot ceilings, and walnut, mahogany, chestnut, and cherry woodwork.

But there's another reason I've wanted to tell this story.

When I was a freshman at Berry College, I passed this house every time I drove home. Eventually, curiosity won and I knocked on the door.

Mrs. Scoggins invited me inside.

That afternoon was probably one of the first times I understood that architecture wasn't just about what a house looked like. A house could have a story—and sometimes that story was worth fighting to preserve.

My newest Rome Home Journal: The Rome You Can't See Anymore tells the remarkable story of The House They Said Couldn't Be Saved.

👉 Read the full story at jebarp.com/blog

And I'd love to know: Do you remember this house when it still stood on East First Avenue?

If you have photographs or memories of it in Rome, please share them in the comments.

08/22/2026

Part 2 of Designing a Kitchen for a 1938 Tudor is up on Rome Home Journal, and this one is about the decisions behind the finished room: Where we spent, where we saved, what we bought used or discounted—and the things I simply refused to pay for.

We went over budget. Of course we did. But not because we bought the most expensive version of everything.

The biggest lesson after renovating around a dozen kitchens is that luxury isn't about purchasing the most expensive option. It's about knowing where quality matters—and where branding doesn't.

There were splurges. There were bargains. There were approximately 4,000 decisions. And yes, there was a dangerous amount of “while we're already doing this…”

The full story—and the finished kitchen—is on Rome Home Journal at jebarp.com/blog

Now that it's finished, we're planning to stay here and enjoy it for a long time.

Probably.

Everything has a price.

08/22/2026

This Tudor Revival house in Rome, Georgia has surprising Coca-Cola roots. Built for local Coca-Cola Bottling Company entrepreneur Alfred Lee Barron, Sr. and his wife Jane, the house was inspired by the Atlanta residence of a Coke executive. The Barrons were so impressed that they hired the very same architect, Odis Clay Poundstone, to create a smaller version in Rome. Over the years, sensitive additions by subsequent owners have expanded the home while preserving its historic charm and even some of its original color palettes.

Explore this remarkable home, along with many other stunning historic properties, during the Fall Ramble in Rome and Floyd County, September 25-27.
https://www.georgiatrust.org/tours-events/fall-ramble/

📅September 25-27, 2026
📍Rome and Floyd County
🎟️georgiatrust.org

08/21/2026

TWO OPEN HOUSES :: SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 | 1–3 PM 🏡

We're dividing and conquering this Saturday with two homes open for you to tour!

📍 805 Collinwood Road — Come see Jeb
This spacious 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home offers nearly 2,400 square feet on approximately three-quarters of an acre. With generous living spaces, a two-car garage, and a great in-town location, there’s much more here than you might realize from the listing photos.

📍 34 Wellington Way — Come see Katie
One-level living with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, two separate living areas, updated kitchen and baths—and an in-ground pool out back. At $324,900, this Twickenham home offers a lot of house (and a pool!) for the price.

If you've been watching either of these homes online, come see them in person. Sometimes a floor plan, the scale of a room, or the way a house feels simply doesn't translate through a screen.

Saturday, August 22 | 1–3 PM

Stop by one—or make an afternoon of it and visit both! Jeb will be at Collinwood and Katie will be at Wellington. We'd love to see you.

Jeb Arp & Katie Edwards
Toles Temple & Wright
🏢☎️706.291.0202
🤷🏻‍♂️📱706.802.7512
💁🏻‍♀️📱678.446.6266

08/19/2026

SOLD :: 780 E Teloga Road | Summerville 🏡

One of the best parts of this business is when a relationship with one client grows into the opportunity to help their family, too.

We were thrilled to help the parents of a longtime and very special client make the move to Georgia from out of state—and find their stunning new home in Summerville. Moving to a new state is a big undertaking, and we're grateful they trusted us to help make the process a little easier.

And a big thank you to Jason McGee on the other side of the transaction. Great communication and teamwork make all the difference, and we hope we get to work together again soon!

Welcome to Georgia! 🍑🏡

Jeb Arp & Katie Edwards
Toles Temple & Wright
🏢☎️706.291.0202
🤷🏻‍♂️📱706.802.7512
💁🏻‍♀️📱678.446.6266

08/18/2026

How are these two buildings connected?

One is a dramatic Modernist house perched on the cliffs of Laguna Beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The other is a Collegiate Gothic library nestled beneath the pines of Berry College. At first glance, they have absolutely nothing in common. But they share a remarkable story.

The California home is Hangover House, recently listed and built by famed adventurer and travel writer Richard Halliburton. Halliburton had just completed the home in 1939 when he set sail aboard the Sea Dragon, attempting to cross the Pacific in a traditional Chinese junk.

Among the crew was George Barstow III, a Juilliard student who had befriended Halliburton and joined the expedition.

The Sea Dragon disappeared in a typhoon. Neither Halliburton, Barstow, nor any member of the crew was ever seen again.

Back in Georgia, George's parents chose to honor their son in a different way. They funded Barstow Memorial Library at Berry College, creating a place that has served generations of students ever since.

I love stories like this because they remind us that architecture is about far more than bricks and mortar.

One man's legacy became a private home perched above the Pacific. The other's became a library that has educated generations of students. Both are architectural memorials in their own way.

This is a story about how buildings preserve memory long after the people who inspired them are gone.

https://www.jebarp.com/blog/hangoverhouse

Sometimes the most fascinating connections in architecture aren't found in the buildings themselves—but in the people whose stories they continue to tell.

08/16/2026

THE THING YOU CAN'T SEE IN THE LISTING PHOTOS: 1658 Horseleg Creek Road

This house gives you room to spread out.

Photos can show you what a room looks like. A floor plan shows you how a house actually lives—and that's one of my favorite things about 1658 Horseleg Creek Road.

This house doesn't have one big room expected to do everything. It has three completely separate living spaces:
🛋️ A traditional living room just off the foyer
🔥 A family room with fireplace adjoining the kitchen and dining area
☀️ A 32-foot-long sunroom stretching across the back of the house

That means the TV can be on in one room, someone can be reading in another, and a whole group can be gathered in the sunroom—and nobody has to compete for the same space.

Add a renovated kitchen, four bedrooms, a huge primary walk-in closet, THREE pantries, two laundry options, more than an acre, a fenced backyard, and a two-car garage, and there's an unusual amount of flexibility here.

Sometimes more square footage isn't the answer. Better places to put people are.

Take another look at 1658 Horseleg Creek Road.

Jeb Arp & Katie Edwards
Toles Temple & Wright
🏢☎️706.291.0202
🤷🏻‍♂️📱706.802.7512
💁🏻‍♀️📱678.446.6266

08/14/2026

5 Things You Might Have Missed :: 15 Quarter Horse

When a listing has been on the market for a while, sometimes we miss the little things that make you like the house in the first place.

Here are five things you should't miss:
🔥 1. That back porch. Vaulted wood ceiling, fireplace, TV and enough room to actually live outside. I'd spend an unreasonable amount of time out there.
🥃 2. The basement. A big recreation space, bar, full bath and additional flex rooms. Movie night downstairs; peace and quiet upstairs.
🛏️ 3. The main-level guest suite. One of those features that may not seem essential—until parents visit, guests stay over, or life changes.
📚 4. The "extra" room off the foyer. Office? Library? Sitting room? Piano room? I love a room that doesn't tell you what it has to be.
🏡 5. Having somewhere for EVERYONE to go. This may be the biggest one. Family room, sitting room, upstairs, basement, porch...you can fill this house with people without everybody being piled into the same room.

Sometimes the best parts of a house aren't the things that make the MLS headline. They're the things you realize you'd miss if this one got away!

15 Quarter Horse Drive | Battle Farm | $535,000

Jeb Arp & Katie Edwards
Toles Temple & Wright
🏢☎️706.291.0202
🤷🏻‍♂️📱706.802.7512
💁🏻‍♀️📱678.446.6266

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