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Tennessee state historian John Trotwood Moore once called Blount Mansion "the most important historical spot in Tennessee." [3] The house is a wood-frame home sheathed in wood siding, built with materials brought from North Carolina in an era when most homes in Tennessee were log cabins. The two-story central portion of the home is the oldest ...
Watt designed some buildings himself, but usually used four architects to execute his plans, namely Walter Aston, John Brooke, Harry S. Fairhurst, and William Longworth. [2] In 1898 Watt bought a tannery on Drury Lane, to the north of the town centre, and with Fairhurst, adapted the buildings into a laundry and cottages.
The rural Church of St. John the Evangelist (1885), at Hunter/Tannersville, New York, for example, was designed for Wood's own family as a seasonal parish without resident clergy; Wood and his wife Florence Hemsley married there in 1889, [4] with Wood's own brother Rev. Alonzo Lippincot Wood conducting the service and the bishop of Tennessee in ...
Sources Compiled by Gareth Hughes, based on the preliminary list of drawings held in the RIBA Drawings Collection. This is as complete a list as can be achieved, although some works have gone unrecorded because of the loss of most of Clough Williams-Ellis's office papers in a fire in 1951. In addition, a number of drawings in the collection are not from Clough's office and may represent ...
Robert William Wood (March 4, 1889 – March 14, 1979) was an American landscape painter. [1] He was born in England, emigrated to the United States and rose to prominence in the 1950s with the sales of millions of his color reproductions. [ 2 ]
William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley (1801–1881), British statesman and Lord Chancellor; William Wood (Pontefract MP) (1816–1872), British MP for Pontefract; William Wood (politician, born 1827) (1827–1884), New Zealand politician, MP for Invercargill and Mataura; William Wood (Texas politician), member of the Twentieth Texas Legislature ...
William Thompson House is an early 19th-century log cabin in Cypress Valley, near Camden, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] The William Thompson House is one of the few structures remaining from the early settlement period in Benton County .
It is the only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Tennessee. Both the exterior and interior of the house use primarily crab orchard stone and treated Louisiana cypress wood. The stonework is reminiscent of Fallingwater : laid horizontally, stones are allowed to protrude (or "stick out") at points from the line of the wall, resembling ...