Horton Grove Window Shutter

Horton Grove Window Shutter

Timber Frame Material Evidence

This window shutter is constructed of pine boards running vertically with support boards nailed across a large amount of cut nails. The metal hinges are also nailed to the shutter, which still swings freely.

Hunter S. Rhodes

Hunter S. Rhodes

Hunter S. Rhodes

Object: exact date unknown, likely middle 19th century

Photo: April 5, 2019

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Hunter S. Rhodes

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12.3MP
3036 × 4048
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Color photograph

Timber Frame

This photo reveals the continued thought that went into building a home that would provide the family inside with a better life, or at least as good as one could manage in the midst of enslavement. Its solid construction has helped it last well over a century, and it still swings freely from fully open to closed. While closed, it offers protection from the elements, and while opened, it allows a wide view of the outside area of Horton Grove, where the enslaved people would spend their evenings cooking and cleaning and being in community with one another.