Chatham-Wilkinson-Bleckley County GaArchives Biographies.....Crutchfield, Ivey P. 1853 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   IVEY P. CRUTCHFIELD, as architect and builder, has made a name for himself in
his locality in southeastern Georgia, and as he is yet a young man he has
prospects for a broader, greater work.

   Mr. Crutchfield was born at Irwinton, Georgia, in 1878, son of J. I. and
Celia (Smith) Crutchfield, both natives of the Empire State of the South; and
when he was a small boy the family moved to a farm near Cochran, where he lived
until he was seventeen. Then he began life for himself. He learned the builder's
trade in its every detail, beginning with hammer and saw, and while he
contracted for and built houses of various descriptions he studied architecture;
he was not content merely to erect according to the plans and specifications of
others, he was ambitious to follow his own plans. For four years he made his
home at Vidalia and previous to that time Cochran was the seat of his
operations, at both of which places and others are to be found monuments of his
skillful workmanship. As a contractor he erected seven of the principal
mercantile buildings of Cochran, also the oil mills and a number of the most
prominent residences of that town, among them being the $14,000 residence of P.
L. Peacock. At Soperton he built a sale stable and cotton warehouse and fifteen
mercantile buildings, and later on he planned a $20,000 bank building at
Soperton, Georgia. His first work of note as an architect was the building
occupied by the large store of Leader & Rosansky, Vidalia. Among his other
architectural works are the First-National Bank Building, the Thompson &
Hamilton Building, the Crescent City Barber Shop Building, Vidalia Furniture
Company Building, the Bank of Vidalia, the New Vidalia Cafe Building, the
building occupied by the buggy business of S. B. & E. L. Medows, the annex of
Vidalia College Institute, G. N. Mathews & Sons Store, and many residences in
Vidalia. He drew the plans and erected the $16,000 residence of R. M. Garbett of
Lyons, the county seat of Toombs county, and other buildings erected by him at
that place are those of Moses Coleman and I. Q. Cole-man respectively, and the
school annex, also the home of F. M. Smith at Lyons. He was the architect of the
Bank of Nashville, the Mount Vernon Bank of Mount Vernon, the Uvalda Bank of
Uvalda, Georgia, the Farmers-Merchants Bank of Nunez, and the Bank of Soperton.
In January, 1913, he moved to Savannah and opened an office in the Germania
Building.

   June 10, 1906, Mr. Crutchfield married Miss Annie Renfroe, daughter of Thomas
Renfroe of Cochran, and they have two children: Lawrin and Ivy Thomas.

   Mr. and Mrs. Crutchfield are members of the Methodist church, and,
fraternally, he is identified with the Knights of Pythias.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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