Browse Items (15 total)

This photo shows detail on the stairs at the Great Barn, a construction method likely used for the stairs at Horton Grove, as well.

This photo shows more of the joinery at the Great Barn, joinery that mimics what went into the Horton Grove home. Like any timber frame, the tying detail is the ever-present peg in the tenons.

This letter, among other items, includes an oft-cited quotation from Cameron: "I have a very great wish to show you the 'best [end quotation marks missing] stables ever built in Orange (at Stagville) 135 feet long covered with cypress shingles at a…

This photo shows the frame in somewhat more detail, but of particular note are the bricks filling in the space between the timbers of the frame. It is all white-washed.

These two pegs are in the tenons of two timbers into the one of the foundational timbers resting on the brick pillars underneath one of the homes at Evergreen. One can still see small nails, also, that likely held a piece of clapboard over these…

This is an example of a scarf joint from the Great Barn at Stagville. This one is a stop-slayed, undersquinted scarf joint with a wedge, one of the strongest scarf joints that demonstrates a tremendous amount of skill.

This photo shows light pouring through some missing exterior siding. It shines on the pegged post that is covered in cobwebs.

This information from the National Historic Register details the twenty-two still extant homes at Evergreen. This was part of a larger document that includes a total of thirty-seven buildings that are on the National Historic Register.

This photo shows the outside of one of the twenty-two still extant Evergreen homes. Save one board, all of the siding over the timber frame remains in place and the doors and window shutters all close fully to protect from the elements.

These short paragraphs given an overview of the tasks that Pierre Becnel contracted with John Carver to perform on the main house of Evergreen Plantation