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fun with it. We live in The Slaughter House, and I’m not sure
many people can say that.”
According to Marsha, the home was built in 1845 by Dr.
Slaughter and his family, though he wasn’t able to enjoy it
long as he died at the young age of 52. The home changed
hands several times before it landed in hers in the summer of
2019. It had even been converted into a duplex when she took
on the renovations.
Marsha, who has two grown daughters, Olivia and
Reagan Durham, and works in the front office of Marietta
High School, was no stranger to renovating homes. She had
completed the renovations on two homes on South Avenue in
Marietta when she was at a dinner party and struck up a
conversation with her friends Angela and Cliff Poston, whose
family owns the 50-year-old residential development
company Traton Homes. The company was in the process of
building nearly 50 homes off of Marietta’s Frasier Street in a
subdivision called Grammercy Park.
“We were talking about some of the other houses that I
had renovated and I just started showing them some
pictures and Cliff said, ‘You know, we have this home that
we acquired as part of the deal for Grammercy Park. It’s a
historic property, so we either have to move it because of its
significance or we need to renovate it. And we’re in the
business of building new homes, not renovating old ones.’
So the next morning, I got the keys and just knew it was a
diamond in the rough – my diamond,” Marsha said.
16 COBB LIFE | MAY 2021