Sunday, July 17, 2011

Our Gulf Coast Cottage

When my husband and I found the McGraw Cottage while home searching in 2004, we knew it was the right home for us. It perfectly blended the local vernacular architecture with the national trend for the greek revival. The home was built sometime before 1859 by Thomas McGraw, a steamboat engineer from Philadelphia, and his wife, a french creole named Marie Verneuille, whose family had fled France at the turn of the nineteenth century. We have furnished our home with family heirlooms and local pieces that we find while antique shopping or at estate sales.





  


7 comments:

  1. not to mention it now houses a darling couple and a precious princess.... not talking about the cat Eleonora...

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  2. Thanks, Drick! Anche la principessa Eleonora ti ringrazia!

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  3. ciao piacere di conoscerti grazie della visita passerĂ  anche questo..... complimenti x il blog un bacio

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  4. Grazie Anna, piacere mio! Molto bello anche il tuo blog! Un bacio anche a te

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  5. So glad to have stumbled across your blog! I'm a native Mobilian living in the Loop area, and lately doing a lot of research on Reconstruction era Mobile. Do you know when Washington Square itself was established? I know there are several antebellum homes around there.

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  6. Hello Tracie! I believe that Washington Square was established in 1850 by Archibald Gordon. The homes directly facing the square were post-war, predominately built between 1868 and 1880, but as you said, there are many homes in Oakleigh that pre-date the Civil War, especially east of George Street.

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  7. That's EXTREMELY helpful. Just what I needed. Thank you so much!

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