Mulliken-Spragins Tenant House, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Summary
Significance: The Mulliken-Spragins tenant house is typical of late nineteenth-century buildings constructed by Maryland Planters for Tenant farmers. The house utilized heavy hewn timers salvaged from and older building and was located between two other tenant houses on the Mulliken-Spragins Tobbaco Farm near bowie Maryland.
Eleven black families lived i the house throughout its known history from 1896-1967. In 1968, the house was dismantled and moved to the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of American History.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-65
Survey number: HABS DC-390
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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