Школы плотников
Школы плотников | |
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![]() Открытка в начале 20-го века Школы Карпентера № 1 | |
Расположение | 706 N Union St (#1) и 800 Washington St (#2), Natchez, Mississippi |
Координаты | 31 ° 33′52 ″ N 91 ° 23′49 ″ W / 3164366 ° N 91,396846 ° W |
Построенный | 1909 |
Архитектор | Рувим Харрисон Хант |
Архитектурный стиль (ы) | Колониальное возрождение |
Official name | Carpenter School No. 1 |
Designated | January 7, 1993[1] |
Reference no. | 001-NAT-1355-NRD-ML |
Official name | Carpenter School No. 1 |
Designated | December 1, 1983[2] |
Part of | Upriver Residential District |
Reference no. | 83004371 |
Official name | Carpenter School No. 2 |
Designated | May 9, 1985[1] |
Reference no. | 001-NAT-0671-NRD-ML |
Построен в начале 20 -го века, школа Carpenter № 1 и Школа Карпентера № 2 , в Натчезе, штат Миссисипи , были двумя из трех зданий, построенных и пожертвованных в городе семейством филантропической плотники города (см. Ниже) для государственных школ в Натчезе. Полем Помимо трех школ, семья построила, а затем пожертвовала многие другие сооружения в город, а школьный округ Natchez-Adams и публичная библиотека Джорджа В. Армстронга все еще получают выгоду от целевого фонда плотника.
Восстановление плотника № 1 в размере 2,1 миллиона долларов США было завершено в 2000 году. [ Цитация необходима ] Поскольку здание указано в качестве имущества в историческом районе в Национальном реестре исторических мест , внешность здания не была изменена восстановлением. Реставрация завершила инициативу города, начатую бывшим мэром, чтобы восстановить и адаптировать крупные, неиспользованные муниципальные свойства. Реконструкция плотника № 2 на Вашингтон-стрит, которая служила в качестве многоцелевого центра Natchez Multi-Citizen, были завершены в ноябре 2000 года. [ 3 ]
Carpenter Family of Natchez
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The Carpenter family in Natchez descends from Nathaniel L. Carpenter, who was born 18 Nov 1805 at Randolph, Vermont, a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter family. Nathaniel L. Carpenter was raised and educated in Lancaster, New York, and went into the stage and hotel business there. In 1833 he journeyed to Natchez, Mississippi, and began a career as a builder. He left Natchez in 1834 and went first to St. Louis, Missouri, then to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1835. He returned to Natchez about 1838 and settled permanently, becoming owner of a line of steamboats and successful in the cotton trade and many other private and public interests. He married in 1837 at Buffalo, New York, to Miss Julia Ann Luce. He led a very full life, traveling throughout the United States, Europe, and the South Pacific islands. He owned the Myrtle Terrace[4] town home in Natchez, and Dunleith[5] plantation near Natchez, both of which are on the annual Natchez historical pilgrimage tours. During the Civil War, he counseled neutrality, but both of his sons joined the Confederacy—Allen D. Carpenter served in the Natchez Rifles and Joseph N. Carpenter in the Breckinridge Guards. Julia Ann (Luce) Carpenter died on 1 May 1871, and Nathaniel L. Carpenter died on 23 Dec 1892. Descendants have continued to live in Natchez. The town of Carpenter, Mississippi in Copiah County, is named for J. N. Carpenter, president of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbia Railroad.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b "Mississippi Landmarks" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Archives and History. May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2010. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Natchez Democrat, "Carpenter School apartments on track for fall completion." December 7, 2000.
- ^ The Natchez Convention & Visitors Bureau, http://www.visitnatchez.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=129&Itemid=35
- ^ Natchez on the River staff: Dunleith, http://www.natchezontheriver.com/news/2008/oct/13/dunleith/ Archived 2009-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2009.
- ^ O. Happyland [pseud.]: "Copiah County Once Boasted of 49 Towns", published in the Crystal Springs, Miss., The Meteor, issue of February 28, 2000, article in the subject file on Copiah County in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, online at http://copiah.msgenweb.org/Resources/Reference/History/Communities/Copiah_County/copiah_county.htm, retrieved 21 July 2009; J. N. Carpenter is likely Joseph Neibert Carpenter of Natchez, Miss.