Marietta is the county seat of Cobb County, and it is one of the few places in the suburbs where people walk to a real town square. Glover Park sits in the middle of the Marietta Square, and each December the city lights its Christmas tree there. The choirs sing first, Santa rolls in on a fire truck, and the mayor helps flip the switch. Plenty of families walk home afterward past the old houses on the streets around the Square, which is a good reason those houses tend to be lit.
Marietta has five historic districts on the National Register: Northwest Marietta, Church Street-Cherokee Street, Washington Avenue, Whitlock Avenue, and Atlanta-Frasier Street. The Whitlock Avenue district alone covers 82 acres, and when it was listed in 1989 it counted 101 contributing buildings, from Greek Revival to Late Victorian. The Church Street and Cherokee Street district has late-1800s and early-1900s homes in Georgian, Queen Anne, and Craftsman styles, with deep lawns and sidewalks built for walking to the Square. In 2013 part of Kennesaw Avenue became the city's first locally designated historic district.
Past the historic core, Marietta looks more like the rest of Cobb, with mid-century ranches, two-story subdivisions, and newer townhomes, and it runs right up against Smyrna to the southeast. We light all of it. The older houses usually have tall porches, turned columns, and decorative trim we would never put a staple in. The newer ones have long rooflines and garages that face the street.
The routine is the same for both. You text a photo, we measure from it and send an itemized quote. On install day we cut each strand to the run, clip it to the shingles or gutters, wrap the columns with tension wraps, set the timer, and go. In January we come back and take it all down. See our roofline and whole-house options.
