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Ask the Times: Times stands in place of a house that was built around 1900
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The Carter home was torn down in the late 1960s to build The Times’ building. - photo by Pictorial History of Hall County to 1950
If you’ve been wondering about something in your community, Ask The Times is your place to get it answered. The following question was submitted by a reader and answered through the efforts of our news staff. After learning about homes torn down to build the current Green Street post office, a reader asked to hear about the house located where The Times building now sits.The Carter home, built around 1900, was torn down in 1968 or 1969 to build The Times building, according to “Pictorial History of Hall County to 1950” by Sybil McRay.Rives Carter lived in the house as a child after his grandfather, Oliver Carter, died in the early 1940s.