T. Blair Dillard House — Carmelita

1080 West Paces Ferry Road NW 1917: P. Thornton Marye In May 1916, the Constitution announced that Thomas Blair Dillard, “formerly of Salem, Va.,” planned to build “a handsome Italian villa, costing between $35,000 and $50,000, on the 27-acre tract he purchased . . . for $18,600 in cash, on the south side of Pace’s…

Fletcher Johnson Spratling (1857–1934)

Seventh Ward Councilman: 1908, 1909; Seventh Ward Alderman: 1911, 1912, 1913 Fletcher Johnson (sometimes Johnston) Spratling was born in Chambers County, Alabama in 1857, the oldest son of James Redding and Antoinette (Bailey) Spratling. His father died when he was an infant and his mother remarried soon after. The 1860 U.S. federal census located him…