Twin Oaks Plantation
| Captain Nathan Carpenter House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 Captain Nathan Carpenter House (2003) |
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| location | Greene County , Alabama | ||
| Coordinates | 32 ° 54 '5 " N , 87 ° 58' 12" W | ||
| Built | 1853 | ||
| architect | David Rinehart Anthony | ||
| Architectural style | Greek Revival | ||
| NRHP number | 99000793 | ||
| The NRHP added | July 23, 1999 | ||
The Twin Oaks Plantation , listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Captain Nathan Carpenter House , is a historic home owned by a plantation owner near Eutaw , Alabama .
history
Nathan Mullin Carpenter's family moved from Franklin County , North Carolina to Greene County , Alabama in the early 1820s . He himself was born on December 22, 1826 and served with the Eutaw Rangers during the Mexican-American War . Carpenter was married twice, first he married Catherine Cockrell on September 7, 1848, who died of yellow fever in 1849 . On January 8, 1851, he married Marjorie Pippen for the second time. Nathan and Marjorie Carpenter raised eight children together, five before the Civil War and three after.
Nathan and Marjorie Carpenter purchased 667 acres of land on September 28, 1852 , for which they paid John and Anna Rice $ 10,012 . This property then became Twin Oaks Plantation. The house was built in 1853 by local contractor David Rinehart Anthony. His own house , which the contractor later built in Eutaw, has some similarities to Twin Oaks, best recognizable by the octagonal columns and the side gables.
Carpenter rounded up a group of men who were supporting the Confederation cause on the lawn in front of it in 1862. He was selected to be the leader of the unit that was incorporated into the 36th Alabama Infantry Regiment as B Company. The unit was involved in the battles of Chattanooga , Chickamauga , Nashville and the Atlanta campaign . Nathan Carpenter died on May 5, 1907 and his widow Marjorie on February 14, 1911.
The house is now owned by Charles and Jan Bullock. Charles Bullock is the owner of a company that restores historic buildings. The Bullocks began renovating Twin Oaks in 1995. The house was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1999 because of its architectural and historical importance.
architecture
The classicist house is a two-storey wooden post construction with a sideways gable roof , which covers the main part of the building and the portico . The base and the chimneys are made of brick . At the front there is a two-story portico supported by four monumental, octagonal columns. This runs over the entire front of the house and includes all yokes . Double doors with side light windows sit in the middle yoke of the two floors, a cantilevered balcony supported by columns is on the upper floor.
Web links
- Photos of the Twin Oaks plantation ( Memento from May 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d National Register Information System
- ^ A b c d e Greene County Heritage Book Committee: The heritage of Greene County, Alabama . Heritage Publishing Consultants, Clanton, Alabama 2001, ISBN 1-891647-50-4 , pp. 89-90 .
- ^ Company B: 36th Alabama Volunteers ( English ) In: Munster roll in the collections of the Alabama Department of Archives and History . Along the old Federal Road. Retrieved January 15, 2009.
- ↑ Linda Holloway: Circa 1852 ( English ) Church Solutions. October 1, 2001. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 15, 2009.
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed July 26, 2017.
