Peixoto Ewer

Peixoto Ewer, made in Jingdezhen, c. 1522-1566; porcelain painted in underglaze blue, with engraved silver cover and bridge spout; the coat of arms is probably that of the Portuguese family of Peixoto

 

Octagonal plate, early 18th. century, Chinese export ware, hard-paste porcelain, Honolulu Museum of Art

 

Jingdezhen Porcelain Koppchen Wappen

 

Export porcelain, China - Museum do Orient - Lisbon, Portugal

 

King

 

Fine Dining by Violet Nesdoly

 This is not about fashionably late

with candlelight shimmering in glasses of Pinot Gris

snowy napkins, pewter flatware

and stacks of food on square plates

over smudges of condiment reduction,

but about two Corelle bowls

heaped with spinach salad at five

green beans steaming in brown Corningware

mushroom chicken bubbling in a Pyrex casserole

a stainless steel pot of fragrant rice.

a tub of margarine, pocked as pumice

and three bottles: Balsamic, Raspberry, Ranch

all on wood trivets to protect the old tablecloth.

Now that it’s light              

we watch people stroll babies and dogs

on the path below our townhouse window.

It’s not the view we would get

at Pelagos on the Beach

but the sum of it is certainly

dining at its finest.

© by Violet Nesdoly.

Sunset

 

Owl in Autumn

 

Moon River

 "Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Sunsets and Rainbows

 

Fine dining

 

The Spanish Dancer Jellyfish

 The Spanish Dancer Jellyfish is a species of vibrant jellyfish found in the lagoon surrounded by the Tami Islands atoll near Papua New Guinea, which dives to a shallow depth of only 69 ft deep. They feed and are fed upon by a variety of pelagic fish. They likely have no association with the local Blue Star.

Deer in Autumn

 

Peacock

 

Poppies

 

Fox and Butterfly

 

Waterfall

 

The Mystic Sea

 

The Intention of God (Wisdom 9:13)

 

Autumn Place setting

 

Stonehenge

 Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds).

Archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.

One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stonehenge is regarded as a British cultural icon. It has been a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1882, when legislation to protect historic monuments was first successfully introduced in Britain. The site and its surroundings were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage; the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.

Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug, and continued for at least another 500 years.

Government House, Gardens, Sydney Australia

 

The Old Grodno Castle

 The Old Grodno Castle originated in the 11th century as the seat of a dynasty of Black Ruthenian rulers, descended from a younger son of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev.

Porto Palermo Castle

 Porto Palermo Castle is a castle near Himarë in southern Albania. It is situated in the bay of Porto Palermo, a few kilometers south of Himarë along the Albanian Riviera. The area together with Llamani beach will be proclaimed a protected area holding the status of Protected Landscape by the Albanian Government. It is the most well preserved garrison erected by Ali Pasha in the region.

MILK

 

The Quadrangular Mardakan Fortress

 The Quadrangular Mardakan Fortress or the Great Mardakan Castle is a historical and architectural monument located in the Mardakan settlement of the Khazar district in Baku. It is included by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan in the list of monuments of world importance. In 2001, along with other objects of the coastal defence of the Caspian Sea, it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Reserve List.

The fortress was built in the shape of a quadrangle in the 12th century by Akhsitan I, the son of Shirvanshah Minuchihr III. 

Bernstein Castle

 In 860 the whole region was part of the archbishopric of Salzburg. Erimbert, a liege of the archbishopric, handed over the Pinka to one Jacobus. The village name Rettenbach was not mentioned yet, but the old Slavic name of the nearby hamlet Grodnau (meaning "the village belonging to the castle") is a sign of the existence of a nearby castle, identifiable with castle Bernstein. Bernstein Castle is 615 metres (2,018 ft) above sea level.

Since 1199 the castle was part of Hungary. It is not exactly known when the castle was handed over to Frederick II, Duke of Austria, and how long it was his property; but in 1236 Béla IV of Hungary conquered the castle. Some years later (in 1260) he gave it to count Henry I Kőszegi.

Saint Francis De Sales (Doctor of Charity)

 

Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces

 Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace is a Marian apparition that allegedly took place in the Carmelite Monastery of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines, to a former Carmelite postulant, Teresita Castillo. The original statue associated with the apparition is currently enshrined at the monastery.

Initially declared as "non-supernatural" after an investigation by six Filipino bishops headed by Cardinal Rufino Santos on 11 April 1951, the case was reopened in 1991 by the local bishop. On 12 September 2015, the Archbishop of Lipa Ramón Argüelles, against explicit direction from the Holy See and the Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, formally approved the apparitions, declaring them "supernatural in character and worthy of belief."

In response, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, on 11 December 2015, declared the apparition non-supernatural. The Archbishop of Lipa received the official copy on May 31 of final verdict. On 1 June 2016, Archbishop Arguelles released a public statement retracting his episcopal judgment on the controversial matter, reverting to the decision issued by the Holy See.

40 years of E.T. (The Movie)

 

German Pyramid

Pyramid of 85,000 captured Imperial German helmets in New York, United States, 1919

 

Conversation Tips

 

The Auburn Botanic Gardens

 The Auburn Botanic Gardens are a botanical garden located in Auburn (a suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1977 and covers an area of 24 acres. There are two lakes, a waterfall and bridges. Duck River winds through the garden. The garden is maintained by Cumberland Council. It is open daily, and there is a small entry fee on weekends. The Japanese gardens, which have hosted couples from overseas, are one of the main attractions.

All Hallows Eve

 Eve of the Feast of All Hallows, that is, All Saints Day. Because of the tradition of costuming and community gatherings, it has become popular in many locations that have little tradition of Christian holy days.

All Hallows' Eve falls on 31st October each year, and is the day before All Hallows' Day, also known as All Saints' Day in the Christian calendar. The Church traditionally held a vigil on All Hallows' Eve when worshippers would prepare themselves with prayers and fasting prior to the feast day itself.

The name derives from the Old English 'hallowed' meaning holy or sanctified and is now usually contracted to the more familiar word Hallowe'en.

A brief history of the festival
In the early 7th century Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon in Rome, formerly a temple to all the gods, as a church dedicated to Saint Mary and the Martyrs, and ordered that that date, 13th May, should be celebrated every year.

It became All Saints' Day, a day to honor all the saints, and later, at the behest of Pope Urban IV (d. 1264), a day specially to honor those saints who didn't have a festival day of their own.

In the 8th century, on 1st November, Pope Gregory III dedicated a chapel to all the saints in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Gregory IV then made the festival universal throughout the Church, and 1st November has subsequently become All Saints' Day for the western Church.

Halloween 2022

 

Jesus Calls His First Disciples Mathew 4:18-22

 18As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 20At once they left their nets and followed him.

21Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, 22and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Saint Agnes

 

Saint King Alfred of Wessex

 King of Wessex, scholar, and renowned Christian monarch. Alfred was born in 849, the fifth son of the Wessex king. During a journey to Rome in 853, he was accepted as a godson by Pope Leo IV . He was a great scholar, translating classics for his people, and early on seemed destined for a career in the Church. Instead, he became king and was forced to spend most of his reign in conflict with the Danes who were then threatening England. His work as a patron of the arts, literature, and especially the Church made him a beloved figure in England. His Feast Day is October 26.

elephant at mount kilimanjaro

 

Majestic

 

Prayer of Saint Francis

 

The 1798 Philip and Johanna Hoehns House: In Forsyth County, North Carolina

 Beautifully restored and impeccably maintained Forsyth County treasure on 8+ peaceful acres in Clemmons, just minutes from I-40 and Winston-Salem. Built in 1798 by Philip Hoehns (Hanes), the first Hanes descendant in NC, and wife Joanna, this 5-bedroom 4-bath National Register home was meticulously renovated in 2015 with a cedar shingle roof, copper gutters, new baths and new HVAC systems. Also in 2015 a historically sensitive addition included a stunning great room with beamed ceiling and wood burning fireplace, a fully equipped chef's kitchen and a lovely covered porch with fireplace. The second level includes a primary suite with handsome bath and sitting room, plus a second bedroom with its own bath. Outbuildings include a two-car detached garage (2015) with expansion potential, and the original, restored springhouse. 

Philip Hoehns, a second-generation Moravian American, was the first of the family to move to North Carolina, bringing along his parents and siblings from Pennsylvania in 1774. A few years earlier, he had bought land in Wachovia, the large Moravian settlement that contained most of what is now Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. He ultimately accumulated 1,800 acres in the area.

In 1778, Philip (1752-1820) married Johanna Salome Frey (1760-1845). “Settling on land Philip had purchased, tradition claims they first lived in a hickory-pole hut, followed by a log house,” the home’s National Register nomination states. “In the winter of 1797-1798, they began construction of their last house, a commodious and sophisticated two-story, four-bay-wide, double-pile, Flemish-bond brick dwelling.”

Philip became a prosperous farmer and distiller, and after his death it was said that “his industry and economy were accompanied by the blessing of God in an evident manner.”

Its location is now within the town of Clemmons, 3550 Middlebrook Drive. The house has 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 2,839 square feet. The lot is 8.26 acres.

“When built, the Philip and Johanna Hoehns House stood out, for there were no other houses of its caliber in the countryside outside the Moravian congregation towns of Bethabara, Bethania and, especially, Salem,” the nomination says.

“At that time, most rural settlers were building log houses, along with a few timber-frame dwellings. For its time and place, the Philip and Johanna Hoehns House was an anomaly, for it was closely aligned, architecturally, with the brick buildings constructed in Salem from the mid-1780s to the early years of the nineteenth century. In particular, it shared many of the features perfected during the latter years of that period in Salem.

The 1798 two-story brick Philip and Johanna Hoehns (Hanes) House is located at 3550

Middlebrook Drive near the south end of the village of Clemmons in Forsyth County, North

Carolina. The house stands near the west angle of a triangular tract of 8.51 acres and faces

northwest toward the northwest property line.  Three outbuildings and a structure

accompany the house. The well house, located northeast of the house, was built in the late 1940s.

The barn-like garage, which also stands northeast of the house, was constructed in 2014-2015.

The 2014-2015 springhouse is located across a stream downhill and south of the house. It is

accessed by a small, stone-veneered, arched bridge of the same date.

The Hoehns House property contains both wooded and grassy areas. The house is set far

back from Middlebrook Drive on the east with a combination of lawn and groupings of trees

between the road and the house. Facing northwest, the house has a large front lawn with

scattered trees that slopes gradually downward toward the northwest property line. Southwest of

the house, the land slopes more sharply downward to a small, winding stream, a tributary of

nearby Johnson Creek, that runs near the southwest property line. Trees along the stream bed

help to shield the Hoehns House from the modern residential subdivision uphill from the far

bank of the stream. Behind (southeast of) the house is an expansive meadow bordered by trees.

The current tract is all that remains intact from the several hundred acres still associated

with the house in 1973, when P. Huber Hanes Jr. sold the larger acreage to a developer.

Although the northwest boundary of the nominated property now faces the rear of houses along

Meadows Edge Court, the southwest boundary faces the rear of houses along Bridgewood Road,

and the eastern boundary faces Middlebrook Drive, east of which are late-twentieth-century

houses and an apartment complex, the surviving 8.51-acre house tract is largely screened from

these late-twentieth-century developments by a variety of deciduous and evergreen trees. All

utility lines are underground.

A concrete rail fence, probably dating from the late 1940s, runs along the east side of the

property paralleling Middlebrook Drive. Originally, it, along with other like fencing, marked the

perimeter of the Hanes’s twentieth-century Middlebrook Farm. On a slight rise of land south of

the northeast corner of the property, two medium-height stone walls dating from 2014-2015

create an entrance to a long, crushed-rock driveway that curves north and then west until it

parallels the northwest property line. Concrete fencing runs along the northwest side of the

driveway. 

The 1798 Philip and Johanna Hoehns House is a two-story, brick, four-bay-wide, doublepile house. o 3) In addition to its two stories, it has an attic and a full basement. Attached to the rear of the house by an enclosed passage is a one-story, three-bay-wide, single-pile frame addition built in 2014-2015. Although the house faces northwest, for ease of describing the exterior and interior characteristics, the façade will be considered as facing west, the rear east,and the two side elevations north and south.

The foundation of the house ranges from approximately one-and-a-half to three feet in

height, depending on the location. Because the ground slopes slightly downward from north to

south, the foundation at the south end of the house is taller than that at the north end. The

foundation is composed of rubble-stone that is stuccoed and scored to resemble refined ashlar

blocks. The “blocks” are painted the bright red-orange color of red-lead, and the “mortar joints”

are painted white. Although through the years, most of the stuccoed surface and paint had

disappeared, during the 2014-2015 exterior restoration of the house, when the 1940s shed-roofed

front porch – which extended across most of the façade – was removed, physical evidence of

both features was discovered. On every side of the house, the foundation is pierced by narrow,

vertical window openings that illuminate the cellar.  A band of shaped clay bricks

along the top of the foundation forms a molded water table. 

The thick, loadbearing-brick walls of the house are tightly laid in Flemish-bond brick

whose dark-fired headers contrast sharply with the red-brick stretchers. Red bricks at each corner

of the house and flanking each door and window give the appearance of accenting rubbed bricks.

The dark headers of each gable end are laid in a decorative chevron pattern. 

The steep, side-gable roof is sheathed with wood shingles. At front and rear, the roof

kicks outward slightly to deflect water. Running the length of the front and rear eaves is a

masonry coved cornice, painted white, with a bead across the bottom painted the red-orange of

red-lead paint. The rake boards along the sides of the roof are composed of three narrow

overlapping boards.  Rising from the north and south ends of the roof are interior-end

chimneys laid in Flemish bond with a corbeled top and a white-painted stuccoed band at the base

of the corbeling.  The chimney stacks were repaired or rebuilt during the late 1940s

remodeling of the house, and noted Winston-Salem brick maker George Black made the bricks

needed for them. Lightening rods at each end of the house rise from the ground up past the

gables and chimneys. They are reproductions of the originals.

The addition has a stuccoed foundation, wood beaded-edge siding, and a wood-shingled

roof. Because of the central hyphen passage, the addition touches only a minimal part of the

original house. The hyphen passage covers the two rear entrances of the original house, which remain 

open on the interior, and a central, second-story window – now converted to a door – that

was added during the renovation of the house in the late 1940s. The first floor of the hyphen has

fixed windows on either side with twenty lights on the north side and thirty-six lights on the

south side. The hyphen has an upper half story created by gabled dormers on either side, the

north dormer with a fixed nine-light window, and the south dormer with a six-over-six sash

window. This is the only section of the addition that is taller than one story. 

Exterior doors and windows are

deeply inset within segmental-arched openings with flared sides, and the surrounds of both are

plain. The two front doors are six-paneled and date from the late-1940s remodeling. The interior

doors are four paneled – raised on one side and flat on the other – and the door casings are set

within shallow, segmental-arched, plastered masonry. Eighteenth-century or reproduction

eighteenth-century hardware is used throughout the house.

On the first floor, the south room has a very large, deep fireplace with a hearth of square brick

tiles and a broad, segmental-arched opening in the plastered masonry. At the rear of the firebox

is a recessed plastered panel of unknown purpose. Being part of the interior end chimney, the

fireplace projects into the room. It is completely plastered and plain, except for a 2014-2015

coved and molded wood mantel shelf that is based on period mantel shelves in Old Salem. 

The north front room on the first floor, now used as a library, contains the stair to the

second floor, rising from west to east. In the late 1940s renovation of the house, this stair was

removed to provide more space for the two north rooms, and, in its stead, a three-legged stair

was installed in the southeast corner of the large south room. During the 2014-2015 restoration/

renovation of the house, physical evidence revealed that the placement of the original stair was

along the north side of the center wall of the house and that it ran, in separate flights, from the

cellar to the attic. Physical evidence also revealed that, prior to the late 1940s, there had been no

stair in the southeast corner of the large south room, so it was removed. In 2014-2015, the stair

was rebuilt in its original, central location, re-establishing the flow of passage from the cellar to

the attic. The current closed-string stair is of simple design, with a baseboard rising along the

wall with the steps,3 a tapered and chamfered newel, a plain balustrade with balusters turned at a

forty-five-degree angle, and a slightly rounded handrail.

The north front room has several other features dating from 2014-2015. A tall cupboard –

a reproduction of a clothes press made by Salem master cabinetmaker Johannes Krause – has

been permanently installed in the southwest corner of the room, covering the north front door.

However, the door is fully intact behind the cupboard, i.e. not plastered over. On the east side of

the room, bookshelves have been installed, running from the stair to the corner fireplace. This

installation necessitated the closure of the original door between the northwest and northeast

rooms. 

  

However, the door remains intact within the plastered wall. In the northeast corner of the

room, the arched firebox opening and the late-1940s mantel shelf have been replaced with a

rectangular firebox opening faced with Dutch tiles and an antique, floor-to-ceiling, paneled

Georgian chimney piece from Virginia applied over the plastered chimney breast. The

rear wall of the firebox retains the same recessed panel as seen in the fireplace of the south room. 

In the first-floor northeast room, now used as a guest bedroom, the wood floor has been

painted in a checkerboard tile pattern. 

 

The northwest corner fireplace retains its broad, arched  opening, rectangular recessed panel at the rear

 of the firebox, and a plastered surround. A coved  and molded wood mantel shelf provides the only

 ornamentation. In the southwest corner of the room, a narrow four-panel door set within a vertical-

board paneled enclosure opens to the stair to the cellar. 

  

In the southeast corner of the room, a doorway, originally the north exterior rear door,

provides access to the rear addition.

The second floor is divided into four rooms. The stair from the first floor opens to the

northeast room, now a sitting room. The fireplace in the northwest corner of the room retains its

arched firebox opening. With the mantel shelf gone, an antique Federal-style American mantel

was attached to the plastered surround in 2014-2015. 

In the southeast corner of the sitting room,

the wall projects by several inches to accommodate utilities. On the interior wall immediately

south of the fireplace, a door opens to the northwest room. 

In the late 1940s, the northwest room was converted to a bathroom, dressing room, and

closet. Although somewhat reconfigured in the 2014-2015 renovation, the room retains those

features. The bathroom is in the northwest corner and the walk-in closet projects from the east

wall. In the northeast corner, a laundry closet retains not only the original plaster and paint, but a

brick floor where a stove – probably a Moravian tile stove – stood in lieu of a corner fireplace.4

In the southeast corner of the room, a door opens to the stair that leads to the attic. .

 

South of the central east-west wall on the second floor are two chambers with entrances

from the north rooms. Each room has a corner fireplace. The southwest-room fireplace has an

antique Georgian mantel with a two-panel frieze from Perquimans County, North Carolina. It

surrounds a rectangular firebox, revised from the original arched firebox. The chimney breast is

plastered.

The frame wall between the two south chambers retains its original wattle-and-daub

insulation composed of corn husks, straw, clay, and narrow strips of wood onto which the daub

is affixed. At the top of the wall, the summer beam is exposed. A door in the north-south wall

opens between the two chambers. 

The southeast-room fireplace has an antique Georgian mantel from Edenton, North

Carolina with a three-panel frieze.  Like the fireplace in the southwest room, the

original arched firebox opening has been changed to a rectangular opening, in this case with

figurative tiles around the face. The chimney breast is plastered. During the 2014-2015

restoration/renovation, the stair in the southeast corner that had been installed in the late 1940s

was removed, as was the bathroom that stood in the northeast corner. 

The window that had been cut into the east wall of the house to illuminate the 1940s bathroom was

 opened into a doorway to provide access to the bathroom and walk-in closet in the rear addition of the

 house.

An enclosed stair rises from the northwest room of the second floor to the center of the

attic. Originally a single room, the 2014-2015 renovation of the house divided the attic into two

rooms. South of the stair is a guest bedroom and north of the stair is a bathroom. In the attic,

most of the roof framing, except for the top, which has been dry-walled to create a ceiling,

remains visible. The roof structure consists of rafters and collar beams, all chamfered and all

mortised-and-tenoned and marked with Roman numerals. On the east wall of the bedroom, a small

 batten door opens to a space along the east edge of the attic, which retains plasterwork and some

 original roof decking.

The cellar is accessed from the interior of the house by an enclosed stair that opens from

the northeast first-floor room and descends from east to west. At the base of the stair, a carved

newel (2014-2015) replicates one in the John Blum House in Old Salem. Also at the base of the

stair is a stone slab set in the brick floor. The current brick floors in the south and northwest

rooms date from the 2014-2015 renovation of the house, but the cellar had a brick floor

originally. The northeast room has a concrete floor.

The cellar is divided into three rooms of the same configuration as those on the first floor.

The stone foundation walls are rough plastered. On each of the exterior walls, two small, narrow,

vertical windows are inset within pronounced trapezoidal openings cut in the brickwork that flair

outward and downward from the window. A timber lintel is set in the plastered brickwork above

each window. Two small rooms are on the north side of the cellar. The doorways between the

large south room and the northwest room and between the northwest and northeast rooms have

stone thresholds. Rather than a central summer beam, the cellar has two north-south ceiling

beams that roughly divide the full width of the ceiling into thirds. In the inner north corners of

the northwest and northeast rooms are large masonry arches that provide support for the north

chimney.

While a four-panel door opens between the northeast and northwest rooms, an openslatted batten door, dating from the 2014-2015 renovation, opens between the northwest room

and the south room. In the large south room, a partition of wide vertical boards with a four-panel

door was built along the east wall during the 2014-2015 renovation to create a storage room. In

the center of the south wall, an original batten door is deeply inset within the segmental-arched,

plastered opening – the base of the south chimney.  The four wide, vertical boards of

the door have a beaded edge, and the two battens have a molded edge. The strap hinges and door

latch are replacements of the originals, but the wooden pull handle is believed to be original. The

door has a stone threshold and opens to steps made of large stones with mortar infill. On the

south side of the door, the doorway is headed by a brick segmental arch with alternating red and

black bricks like the arches of the exterior doors and windows. The stone steps are housed

within a weatherboarded and gable-roofed frame bulkhead with a batten door at the top of the

steps opening to the exterior. 

Recent History

The Hoehns House has a slightly complicated recent history. “In the late 1940s, the interior of the house was remodeled according to plans prepared by Winston-Salem architect William Roy Wallace,” the NRHP nomination says. “When the current owners renovated the house in 2014-2015, they restored some of the original features based on physical evidence, retained some of the 1940s features when there was no evidence of earlier treatments, and made a few changes based on personal taste. …

The 2014-15 renovation included the construction of a one-story addition behind the house, connected to the original structure by a hallway.

“Although large, the one-story frame addition was designed and built to be as sensitive as possible to the historic character of the original house and to have the least impact on it. Among other things, the addition housed a new kitchen and two bathrooms, so that these facilities did not interrupt the original fabric of the house.”

There are three outbuildings and a structure associated with the house. All were erected

or remodeled during the 2014-2015 renovation and, because of their date of construction, all are

non-contributing resources.

Well house 

Located north of the house along the house yard fence, the well house was built in the

1940s. It is a brick structure with bricks made by Winston-Salem master brick maker George

Black. In the 2014-2015 renovation of the house, the well house was stone-veneered (over the

bricks) and one of the 1940s six-panel rear doors of the house – no longer in use because of the

east addition – replaced the south-end batten door. Two stone steps rise to the well house door.

The well house has a gable-front roof sheathed with wood shingles, weatherboarded gable ends,

and a four light window on the east and west walls.

  Garage 

The garage stands northeast of the house and southeast of the well house. It is modeled

after a barn located in Old Salem. The one-story frame structure has a stone foundation, boardand-batten siding, six-over-six sash windows (two on the west side, two on the north side, and

one on the south side), and a side-gable roof sheathed with wood shingles. The north gable end –

what would have been the loft in an actual barn – has a fixed loading door and hoist pole. On the

rear, east side, of the garage are two vehicle bays with chevron-patterned wood doors. A shed

room projects from the south side of the garage, and a pedestrian door is located west of the shed

room.

Springhouse

South of and downhill from the house, across a stream and along the southwest property

line, is the springhouse built in 2014-2015. The small, stone-veneered structure has a front-gable

roof sheathed with wood-shingles and a gable-front narrow batten door. The spring house, which

stands on top of the spring, is partially below grade, and a low, concrete and brick wall surrounds

its front (north) and west sides. 

Bridge

Built in 2015, a low foot bridge crosses the stream to provide access to the springhouse

from the dwelling. It has a round, stone-faced, concrete culvert and stone-veneered parapets

bordering the foot bed.

The agricultural land and woods originally associated with the house were reduced in

1973 from several hundred acres to 8.51 acres. Although the current acreage is surrounded by

modern residential development, the size and visual character of the open and wooded tract

provide an appropriate setting for the house. 

Philip and Johanna had 10 children. Some of their more recent descendants.

In 1872, two of Philip and Johanna’s many great-grandchildren, Pleasant Henderson Hanes and younger brother John Wesley Hanes established a very successful chewing tobacco company. They sold it to R.J. Reynolds for $1 million in 1900. Then they went their separate but similar ways, starting the two companies (P.H. Hanes Knitting Company and Hanes Hosiery Mills, respectively) that came together in 1965 to form the Hanes Corporation. That company is still thriving today as Hanesbrands Inc. (“Comfortable Clothing Since 1901”).