| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Judge Sebron G. Sneed House ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Judge Sebron G. Sneed House
The Judge Sebron G. Sneed House (also, Sneed House and Comal Bluff) is a historic former limestone plantation house, commissioned by Judge Sebron Graham Sneed in 1852 after his family had moved from Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1854 to a 470-acre farm that they had purchased for $1000 in present-day Austin, Texas. It was likely designed by architect and general contractor, Abner Hugh Cook, co-owner of the sawmill where Sneed had purchased lumber for the construction of the house. Cook is most notable for designing the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin.
The 5-year construction project for the homestead was undertaken by Sneed's slaves and was completed by 1857.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judge Sebron G. Sneed House, Route I-35 & Bluff Springs Road, Austin, Travis County, TX )〕〔Sam Ramos, ("The Plantation at Comal Bluff: Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin" (May 23, 2014). ). ''The Austin Chronicle''〕 The walls of the house were built with limestone that was quarried from the Sneed farm, and brought to the construction site to be finished by hand. Lumber that was used for the floors, roof, and millwork was obtained 30 miles east in Bastrop, Texas. It was likely purchased from the Higgins Mill, a sawmill that had operated out of Lost Pines Forest along Copperas Creek since 1841.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lost Pines Forest )〕 It is one of the few surviving pre-Civil War structures in the city.
By 1860, the Sneed family owned 21 slaves. During the Civil War, Sebron Sneed's sons enlisted as soldiers with the Confederacy and the house was used as a recruiting station (or Confederate hospital) during the war. By the end of the war, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves who would have maintained the homestead and farm. Sneed later willed 55 acres of the property and the house at Comal Bluff to his daughter Marinda Bledsoe on July 15, 1871, who then willed the property to her daughter, Rockie Bledsoe by 1916. The family lived on the premises until August 1, 1922, when it was sold with 196.4 acres to Bledsoe's cousin, Calvin L. Hughes for $8000. Hughes then willed the property to his daughter, Virgia Lo Cage, where she lived until her death there sometime in the 1960's.〔
== Architecture ==
The first floor of the Sneed House consisted of six rooms; front and rear halls, three parlors (south, west, east), and a kitchen. A stairwell led to the upper story from the rear hall. The second floor also had six rooms; front and rear halls, and four bedrooms with access to the attic via a stairwell in the southeast bedroom. The bedrooms, parlors, and kitchen each had fireplaces. Access to the exterior was through doors located at the front and rear halls of the first and second floor. Later photographs show doors at the upper floor, yet no access to a balcony. It can be assumed that there was once a balcony along both sides of the first and second floors (''see McKinney Homestead''). Each of the rooms of the homestead had two windows, while the first floor front doors had sidelites to either side and a transom window above. The attic had two windows at each end. Floors of each of the rooms were finished with wide pine planks. Each of the downstairs rooms had exposed ceilings, except for the kitchen which had a beaded ceiling and the south parlor which was plastered. Rooms along the north end and rear hall had unplastered limestone interior walls, while the kitchen and south parlor walls were plastered. The ceilings and walls of all of the upstairs rooms were plastered. Hearths were originally limestone. Those in the east parlors and kitchen were covered with concrete, while the original stone hearth in the west parlor was replaced with brick during renovations after 1900. Another exterior door was added to the east end of the house through the east parlor during this time. Four chimneys graced the exterior of the house.
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「Judge Sebron G. Sneed House」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|