The home owned by Sandy and Donna McClure on Bluff Street is one of the several stops for those who participated in the 2023 Rockmart Tour of Homes for the holidays. Here’s the full history they provided for this year’s tour:
This turn of the century home on Bluff Street in Rockmart was built around 1900 and was commonly known as the Mundy House. The home was purchased in January of 1923 by Colonel Clifford Grady Mundy. The current owners, Sandy and Donna McClure purchased the home in October of 1980.
As you enter the property, you will climb thirteen steps that lead to a spacious, screened front porch that almost runs the full width of the house. The home has eight rooms featuring high ceilings, original hardwood floors, crown molding, five fireplaces, and large windows throughout the house.
As you enter the home from the front porch, you will walk into a sitting parlor also known during that time as a courting parlor, which features a fireplace and built-in bookshelves. A living room that features two large windows and a fireplace, a formal dining room featuring a fireplace and a butler’s pantry, and a kitchen that features two walk-in pantries, with the original plastered walls, are some of those items that remain from the home’s past.
The home has three bedrooms, which originally were four bedrooms, until one was converted into a master bathroom with a walk-in closet and laundry room.
The family room is in the center of the home with eight doors including one that leads to the back porch, laundry room and storage room. The back porch leads to a 44×16-foot wooden deck, overlooking the backyard with a privacy fence decorated with seasonal metal art, a gazebo, and the original carriage house with a tin roof.
Some other interesting historical facts about the Mundy House, now named by our children as the McClure Compound on the Bluff:
Colonel Mundy was a well-known local attorney, city councilman and one-time Mayor of Rockmart.
Sandy McClure was also a Rockmart City Council member.
Donna Williams McClure’s great-great Aunt, Dora, was the housekeeper for the Mundy’s and her Grandmother Arceola Williams took in washing and ironing for the family.
Agnes Mundy was the Rockmart postmaster until 1964, whereas Sandy McClure was a delivery driver and manager at the United Parcel Service (UPS) for 22 years and a manger for FedEx for 23 years.
Clifford and Agnes’ daughter, Kathryn Mundy Grogan and Sandy’s father Ray, and grandfather Ervin McClure, worked at the Rockmart and Cedartown branch offices of the Atlanta Gas Light company for many years.
Over the last 43 years while living here, the home has gone through some renovations and character changes and I must admit at times it was quite a challenge keeping up with the repairs and renovations of an aging home while raising our four children. It became a labor of love as we tried to maintain as much of the original character and integrity of the structure as possible.
Gathering are always special at The McClure Compound on the Bluff, especially when our four children, their spouses, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren come to visit.
Donna and I have always considered this home as a Sanctuary of Love for ALL who gace us with their presence.
This year’s Rockmart Tour of Homes organized by the Rotary Club of Polk County raised money for the Murphy-Harpst Children’s Center in Polk County.
