Steven Johnson's home is a little different than the other historic homes on Green Street Circle.

From the two small doors on the back of the house — one for coal and the other for milk deliveries — to the fact that the home itself was a kit home ordered from a catalog, the home has a unique history.

Johnson said through the hard work of home renovations he has grown to love the old family home. He has partially restored it and lives in it part time.

"My grandfather originally bought this house, not long after it was built," said Johnson, who also has a home in Atlanta. "It was after the Depression and he bought it in an auction. He was driving home from work and they were auctioning it, so he stopped and bid on it and got it."

Johnnie Johnson, Steven's mother, said she thinks her in-laws (Harry L. and Annie Bell Johnson) paid about $2,000 for the home.

The home is a kit home, which was popular around the time of the Depression. A kit home was ordered through a catalog, and besides the lumber, the package included nails, shingles, windows, hardware and paint, among other building supplies.

"The house is a Sears Roebuck kit house," Johnnie said. "It was first owned by (a family named) Hobbs and then it was sold to another Johnson — but I'm not sure — and my in-laws bought the house in either 1941 or 1942. My husband grew up in the house, moved in when he was 11. He was the only child that ever lived in the house."

According to The Arts & Crafts Society Web site, the Sears Roebuck kit homes were produced from 1908 to 1940.

Johnnie and Steven differ on the year that the home was constructed, but it was built sometime in the late 1920s. Steven said he has become well-acquainted with the age of the home from all the improvements he has made in the last 10 years.

"I am still in the process of fixing it up and restoring it," he said. "I've replaced all the plumbing and a good bit of the electrical. I redid the bathroom. I just recently this year had it painted and replaced a lot of the siding that had some problems."

But there are some original features that Steven has become fond of like the tongue-and-groove details.

"On the back of the house there is some tongue-and-groove that I really like," he said. "I like that it is very open; a lot of houses this size don't have this openness. I like this location and the heart pine floors."

Other original pieces of the home include light fixtures, a kitchen sink, the exterior siding and the floors.

The bunaglow-style has two bedrooms, a dining room, a living room, kitchen, bathroom and front porch.

But unlike other craftsman-style homes, this kit home had a basement.

"In the catalog (there was) no basement. But if you look at the property it has to have one," said Steven, who added that the property is at least 20 feet lower on the back of the house than the front.

"It is amazing that the house was able to be built," said the Atlanta engineer. "The difference now, between now and then, there is pre-fab stuff now. But you would think ordering out of a catalog it was pre-fab — but it wasn't at all."