Location map with notes, Williams-Bryant Log House, Randolph County, North Carolina
Williams-Bryant Log House (Richland Township, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Location map with notes, Williams-Bryant Log House, Randolph County, North Carolina
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Cabins (Houses)
- Original Format:
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Measured drawing
- Extent:
- scale: 1 in. = 2 mi.; 483mm x 610mm
- Item identifier:
- bh030701701
- Delineator:
- Woodard, Barney P., Jr. more info on Woodard, Barney P., Jr.
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural drawings
Location maps
Research notes
- Location:
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Randolph County (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Williams-Bryant Log House (Richland Township, Randolph County, North Carolina)
- Built:
- Community:
- Richland Township
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- Solomon Williams, first owner; B. H. McCarn, Williams's grandson, second owner; Walter and Vivian Bryant, twentieth century owner
- Architectural note:
- The Williams family owned a sawmill, and all the logs in the cabin were milled by Solomon Williams and his father, John Williams. For the home's stonework, Solomon Williams hired stonemason Richard Suggs, a former slave who became his friend and employee. Richard Suggs inscribed a chimney stone with his and Williams's names, along with the construction date, 1849.
- Historical note:
- Williams was a Quaker who was anti-slavery and a pacifist, who did not fight in the Civil War and helped out local African Americans, leading him to meet his friend, the stonemason Richard Suggs. The log house was inherited by Solomon Williams's grandson, B. H. McCarn, who later sold it to the Bryant family. The Bryants dismantled the structure piece by piece, numbered each log, and moved it to Asheboro in 1969, where they rebuilt it in their backyard. They had the reconstructive stonemason place the inscribed chimney stone at a lower position, so Richard Suggs and Solomon Williams's names could be better seen.
- Location:
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Randolph County (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Houses
Log cabins
