The NOT Forgotten Cheney House in Athens

 Built in 1893. Often cited as Athens’ nicest surviving Queen Anne and the first in Athens to have indoor plumbing, the Cheney House is now a commercial property. It was the home of the eccentric Cheney sisters, who feature in James K. Reap’s Athens: A Pictorial History (Walsworth Publishing Comapny, 1985): “Two sisters, Frances and Maud Cheney, were living in the house when a neighbor’s cat came over to have her kittens. Maud cared for them and loved them, and when the cat went home, Maud kept the kittens in spite of the neighbor’s demand for their return. The dispute finally went to court, where the judge ruled against Miss Cheney. When she still refused to return the kittens, and cursed the judge, she was sentenced to jail for contempt of court. Whether she actually served her sentence, no one knows, but it is said that she sat on the steps of the jail denouncing the sheriff who told her to spend her sentence at home.”
Paul Bridges

More information on the house can be found here
https://www.pdwlawfirm.com/firm-profile/cheney-house

Here is a video made by one of the owners of the house showing and talking about the architecture of the house outside and inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmiBy5BvRf4