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ASH GROVE HISTORIC SITE Meat House Historic Structure Assessment 2014 ASH GROVE HISTORIC SITE Meat House Historic Structure Assessment 2014 1959, Russell Jones, HABS 2013, Elizabeth Peebles, FCPA Prepared by: Elizabeth Peebles Cultural Resource Management and Protection Branch Resource Management Division Fairfax County Park Authority Acknowledgements Park Authority Board William G. Bouie, Chairman, Hunter Mill District Ken Quincy, Vice Chairman, Providence District Frank S. Vajda, Treasurer, Mason District Kala Leggett Quintana, Secretary, At-Large Edward R. Batten, Sr., Lee District Mary D. Cortina, At-Large Linwood Gorham, Mount Vernon District Faisal Kahn, At-Large Harold L. Strickland, Sully District Richard C. Sullivan, Jr., Dranesville District Michael W. Thompson, Jr., Springfield District Anthony Vellucci, Braddock District Senior Staff Kirk W. Kincannon, Director Cindy Messinger, Acting Chief Financial Officer Sara Baldwin, Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer David Bowden, Director, Planning and Development Division Todd Johnson, Director, Park Operations Division Barbara Nugent, Director, Park Services Division Cindy Walsh, Director, Resource Management Division Roberta LongWorth, Executive Director, Park Foundation Judith Pedersen, Public Information Officer Project Team Dr. Elizabeth Crowell, Manager, Cultural Resource Management and Protection Branch, Resource Management Division Elizabeth Peebles, Architectural Historian and Principal Investigator, Cultural Resource Management and Protection Branch, Resource Management Division Karen Lindquist, Historic Preservation Program Coordinator, Cultural Resource Management and Protection Branch, Resource Management Division Barbara Leven, Volunteer Field Assistant, Cultural Resource Management and Protection Branch, Resource Management Division Table of Contents List of Figures ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Building Chronology ...................................................................................................................................... 1 Architectural Description ............................................................................................................................ 10 Site .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Exterior .................................................................................................................................................... 13 Foundation .......................................................................................................................................... 13 Siding ................................................................................................................................................... 13 Cornice ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Roof ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 South Elevation ................................................................................................................................... 15 East Elevation ...................................................................................................................................... 17 North Elevation ................................................................................................................................... 19 West Elevation .................................................................................................................................... 20 Interior .................................................................................................................................................... 21 Floor .................................................................................................................................................... 22 Ceiling and Roof Framing .................................................................................................................... 22 South Wall ........................................................................................................................................... 24 East Wall.............................................................................................................................................. 26 North Wall ........................................................................................................................................... 27 West Wall ............................................................................................................................................ 28 Recommendations ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................ 32 Appendix A Measured Drawings ................................................................................................................. 33 Appendix B Historic American Building Survey ........................................................................................... 39 List of Figures Figure 1. Approximate locations of Franklin Sherman insured structures 1869-1887 over 1937 aerial. ..... 3 Figure 2. Ash Grove Kitchen circa 1918, Museum Collections, FCPA. .......................................................... 4 i Figure 3. Detail of Ash Grove Kitchen circa 1918, Museum Collections, FCPA. ............................................ 4 Figure 4. Ash Grove Site Plan, Historic American Building Survey, 1960, Library of Congress. .................... 5 Figure 5. 1959 Perspective of south and east elevations, Russell Jones, Historic American Building Survey, Library of Congress. .......................................................................................................................... 6 Figure 6. South elevation, 1992, unknown photographer (CRMPB files). .................................................... 7 Figure 7. South elevation, 1997, unknown photographer (CRMPB files). .................................................... 8 Figure 8. South elevation, 1998, unknown photographer (CRMPB files). .................................................... 8 Figure 9. South elevation (FCPA 2013). ........................................................................................................ 9 Figure 10. South elevation (FCPA 2014). ...................................................................................................... 9 Figure 11. Ash Grove Historic Site (FCPA 2013). ......................................................................................... 10 Figure 12. Ash Grove Historic Site, 2011 aerial (FCPA 2014). ..................................................................... 11 Figure 13. Perspective of west and south elevations (FCPA 2013). ............................................................ 12 Figure 14. Perspective of east and north elevations (FCPA 2013). ............................................................. 12 Figure 15. East elevation foundation (FCPA 2013). .................................................................................... 13 Figure 16. North elevation siding (FCPA 2013). .......................................................................................... 13 Figure 17. Cornice detail, northeast corner (FCPA 2013). .......................................................................... 14 Figure 18. Perspective of west and south roof (FCPA 2013). ..................................................................... 15 Figure 19. South elevation (FCPA 2013). .................................................................................................... 15 Figure 20. Period annotated south elevation (FCPA 2014). ........................................................................ 16 Figure 21. Door detail, south elevation (FCPA 2014). ................................................................................. 17 Figure 22. East elevation (FCPA 2013). ....................................................................................................... 17 Figure 23. Period annotated east elevation (FCPA 2013). .......................................................................... 18 Figure 24. North elevation (FCPA 2013). .................................................................................................... 19 Figure 25. Period annotated north elevation (FCPA 2013). ........................................................................ 19 Figure 26. West elevation (FCPA 2013)....................................................................................................... 20 Figure 27. Period annotated west elevation (FCPA 2013). ......................................................................... 20 Figure 28. Perspective of east and south walls (FCPA 2013). ..................................................................... 21 Figure 29. Perspective of west and north walls (FCPA 2013). ...................................................................
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