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

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.

This photograph has in the foreground the door to one of the rooms of one of the Horton Grove homes in Stagville. Visible also is the pine flooring as well as the white-washed timber frame that is also brick-nogged as well as the white-washed…

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.

This photo details a scarf joint and pegged tenon as well as some white-washed interior siding. The scarf joint is a technique applied when one does not have a timber quite long enough for the task at hand. The builder makes an intricate butt joint…