Georgia Cottage
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 Georgia Cottage in 1963 (Image from Historic American Buildings Survey ) |
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| location | 2564 Springhill Avenue Mobile , Alabama , USA |
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 41 ′ 47 " N , 88 ° 6 ′ 0" W | ||
| Built | 1840 | ||
| Architectural style | Greek Revival | ||
| NRHP number | 72000170 | ||
| The NRHP added | September 14, 1972 | ||
Georgia Cottage is a historic residential building in Mobile , Alabama . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 1972 because of its association with Augusta Jane Evans , one of the most famous nineteenth-century novelists, but which has been largely forgotten in recent times.
history
The house was built in 1840 in the Greek Revival style by Colonel John Murrell of Georgia for their daughter Mrs. William A. Hardaway. In 1855 it was sold to Alfred Batre, the son of Adolphe Batre, for his new bride Hortense Addison, the daughter of Lloyd Dulany Addison of Oxon Hill Manor Addison's. In 1857 Augusta Jane Evans bought the house for her father Matthew R. Evans. The Matthew Evans family had moved to San Antonio , Texas in 1849 while the Batre family had settled at 100 S Fanklin Street and later at 400 Church Street.
In Georgia Cottage Augusta Evans wrote her two famous novels "Macaria" and "St. Elmo ”. In 1868 she married Lorenzo Madison Wilson in the drawing room of Georgia Cottage. After the wedding, she settled in her husband's villa, Ashland, which gave her name to the Ashland district in Mobile. Georgia Cottage was owned by the Evans family until it was sold to Andrew Damrell in 1879. It was bought by JN Brownlee in 1926 and Edward Simmons Sledge in 1935.
Sledge's son, Eugene Bondurant Sledge , was raised at Georgia Cottage and served in the United States Marine Corps during World War I before becoming a professor and writer. His memorandum “ From the old school: The Second World War at the other end of the world. Memories ”was one of the sources for Ken Burns' documentary The War and the miniseries The Pacific ( HBO ).
architecture
The house was originally a country house but is now located within the city limits of Mobile. Slaves were used in the construction.
The one-story wooden frame construction with a brick foundation has typical stylistic elements of the cottages of the Gulf Coast as well as shapes of the Greek Revival . The main block is decorated on both sides with a side wing and a hip roof.
The house is at the end of a long avenue of living oaks that were planted before 1840. The avenue has been listed on Alabama's Famous and Historic Trees Program.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ↑ a b Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. In: Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation and Auburn University, accessed August 18, 2009 .
- ^ Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) (1835-1909). In: New Encyclopedia of Georgia. Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press, accessed August 18, 2009 .
- ↑ John Sledge: Augusta Jane Evans. The American Center for Artists, 2003, accessed August 18, 2009 .
- ↑ Our Founding Mothers. (pdf) The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America , accessed February 6, 2020 .
- ^ A b c d Hardaway-Wilson House (Georgia Cottage) . In: Historic American Buildings Survey . National Park Service. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ^ Hortense Addison Batre. In: Find A Grave . Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Eugene B. Sledge. In: Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
- ^ Alabama's Famous & Historic Trees Program - 2003. (pdf) In: Alabama Forestry Commission. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008 ; accessed on March 13, 2009 .