Historic Structure Report: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Chicken House/Wash House

摘要

Connemara, the North Carolina mountain property where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sandburg lived the last twenty-two years of his life, was originally called Rock Hill by its builder C.G. Memminger. The estate contains the Greek Revival Main House in addition to several vernacular outbuildings, including the building called the Chicken House/Wash House by the Sandburgs, originally built by Memminger as a servant's residence. The historical background and context of the estates development has been previously studied in several reports, among them the Connemara Main House Historic Structure Report and The Swedish House Historic Structure Report by Tommy Jones of the National Park Service Southeast Regional Office, both from 2005. What follows is a brief summary of the major persons and events associated with the estate now interpreted as the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site.