Coffin Shop
| Coffin Shop | |
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| National Register of Historic Places | |
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| location | McKee and Monroe Sts., Gainesville, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 32 ° 49 '17.6 " N , 88 ° 9' 29.7" W |
| Built | between 1860 and 1870 |
| architect | Edward N. Kring |
| Architectural style | Shotgun House |
| NRHP number | 85002930 |
| The NRHP added | October 29, 1985 |
The Coffin Shop ( dt. "Coffin shop") in Gainesville in the US state of Alabama is a listed building dating from the second half of the 19th century. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 29, 1985 with number 85002930 .
The Coffin Shop is the only remaining building from the former Gainesville business district, which stretched between McKee and State Streets.
description
The Coffin Shop is a simple, rectangular wooden frame construction with a footprint of 2.22 by 3.81 meters. It has a Planks- and strips formwork to the rear and side walls and a shuttering on the side facing the road gable wall, the roof is on this side with a perforated and grooved verge completed. Such verges were typical of Gainesville farm buildings from that time. Above the entrance door there is a small, three-part lattice window as a skylight . The higher set door next to it was used to load the coffins .
The building has two rooms that are arranged in the style of a shotgun house . In the middle of the building there is a small chimney with a flue pipe.
history
The building was built between 1860 and 1870 by Edward N. Kring as an annex to his carpenter's workshop, which was located behind the rear. The Coffin Shop served as a demonstration room, where customers could choose the material and design for the coffins made by Kring.
On March 16, 1881, the building survived a major fire that destroyed the entire business district of Gainesville.
In 1970 the house was moved four meters off Alabama Highway 39 on a concrete brick foundation .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f National Register Digital Assets. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Joan Broerman: Weekend Getaways in Alabama. Pelican Publishing, Gretna 2000, ISBN 1-56554-676-8 , p. 166.
- ↑ Beverly Crider: Legends and Lore of Birmingham & Central Alabama. History Press, Charleston 2014, ISBN 978-1-62584-927-4 .
- ↑ Dr. Alan Brown: Images from Sumter County. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston 2015, ISBN 978-1-4671-1337-3 , p. 13.