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Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall is a group of historic buildings in Plymouth Meeting, Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The house is located on the northeast corner of Germantown and Butler Pikes, opposite the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse. Abolition Hall is directly behind the house and a large barn is northeast of it, part of a 9-acre farm running along Butler Pike.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania ) ''Note:'' This includes 〕 The buildings are contributing properties in the Plymouth Meeting Historic District.〔 The original stone house was built about 1794 by George Corson, and subsequently enlarged into a 3-story, 14-room, Federal-style dwelling. A nephew, George Corson II (1803-1860), purchased the house in the 1830s. Abolition Hall was originally built as a carriage house, and was enclosed and enlarged with a second story in 1856. The building was the site of meetings and lectures by abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison and Lucretia Mott. George Corson II was one of the founders of the Plymouth Meeting Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. His property became a stop on the Underground Railroad.〔''Thomas Hovenden: American Painter of Hearth and Homeland'', Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, 1995. ISBN 1-888008-00-8.〕 In one instance, he hid an escaping family under a wagonload of hay and drove them to the next "station."〔Hiram Corson, MD. ''The Corson Family: A History of the Descendants of Benjamin Corson, Son of Cornelius Corssen of Staten Island, New York.'' (Philadelphia: H.L. Everett, 1906).〕 A local free-black man, Dan Ross, acted as "conductor" for hundreds of fugitive slaves.〔Ron Avery, ("Plymouth Meeting Quakers Hid Slaves – It's A Shrine Of The Underground Railroad," ) ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', June 19, 1995.〕 Helen Corson (1846-1935), George Corson II's daughter, trained as an artist in Philadelphia and Paris. She met Irish-born painter Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) in France, and they were married at the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse on June 9, 1881. The couple moved into her late father's house, and raised two children, Martha and Thomas Jr. Hovenden became an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and used Abolition Hall as his studio until his 1895 death in a train accident. The building's entrance porch may be depicted in Hovenden's most famous painting, ''The Last Moments of John Brown'' (1882–84). Their daughter, Martha M. Hovenden (1884-1941), a noted sculptor, later used Abolition Hall as her studio. The trio of buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. File:Hovenden House Corson Family History opp.114.jpg|Hovenden House, from the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse, circa 1906. Image:'The Last Moments of John Brown', oil on canvas painting by Thomas Hovenden.jpg|''The Last Moments of John Brown'' (1882–84), Metropolitan Museum of Art. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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