{"id":1725,"date":"2011-03-21T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:42:24","slug":"henry-louis-smith-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/encyclopedia\/henry-louis-smith-house","title":{"rendered":"Smith House"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21978\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/smith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21978\" src=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/smith-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Louis Smith House 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/smith-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/smith-250x162.jpg 250w, https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/smith.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Louis Smith House<br \/>2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dates: <\/strong>Built in 1897 as faculty house. Used as administrative offices<br \/>\nin 1960s. Student dormitory 1972-1992. Remodeled as offices for College<br \/>\nRelations in 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> . . . on the northernmost edge of college property just south of<br \/>\nGlasgow Street, was the site chosen in 1896 for what Prof. Henry Louis Smith<br \/>\nwanted, &#8220;a home of my own where I can raise my own vine and fig tree and<br \/>\nexercise the rites of hospitality,&#8221; as he expressed it to the executive<br \/>\ncommittee. It had cost almost $2,500 by the time it was built in 1897, and Dr.<br \/>\nSmith had spent an additional $200 of his own for such unheard of conveniences<br \/>\nas electric wiring and a porcelain bathtub. <em>Beaty, Mary. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A History of<br \/>\nDavidson College.<\/span> Davidson: Briarpatch Press, 1988:188.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Named for:<\/strong> Henry Louis Smith, class of 1881. Davidson College professor<br \/>\n(1887-1912), Davidson College president (1901-1912).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/archives\/encyclopedia\/davidson-college-campus-buildings\/\">Return to Campus Building List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates: Built in 1897 as faculty house. Used as administrative offices in 1960s. Student dormitory 1972-1992. Remodeled as offices for College Relations in 1992. Quote: . . . on the northernmost edge of college property just south of Glasgow Street, was the site chosen in 1896 for what Prof. Henry Louis Smith wanted, &#8220;a home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22006,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/22006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}