{"id":1728,"date":"2011-03-21T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:43:41","slug":"sparrows-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/encyclopedia\/sparrows-nest","title":{"rendered":"Sparrow’s Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sparrow's<\/a>
Sparrow’s Nest
2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dates: <\/b>Built in 1840s. Boarding house 1915 into 1920s. Acquired by
\nCollege in 1908. Remodeled in 1961, 1974. Campus Security office 1974-1990.
\nPhysical Plant office 1990-1999.<\/p>\n

Quote: <\/b>This little house, which stands next to the college laundry, was
\nbuilt before the Civil War to house servants for the “Sparrow’s
\nNest.” A certain Mr. Sparrow, one of the prominent citizens of early
\nDavidson, had built his home on the lot next to the present site of Richardson
\nDorm. He had four attractive daughters who managed to charm a goodly
\nportion of the nearby student body. It became the fashion of the young men to
\nvisit the Sparrow home. In time, things got so cozy that the place was fondly
\nspoken of as the “Sparrow’s Nest.” All four of the girls, incidently,
\nmanaged to marry Davidson men. Pappa Sparrow could not, of course, get along
\nwithout his servants, and in order to have them near, he built the read brick
\nbuilding which still stands today at the back of Belk. Williams, Jim.
\n“College Hunts New Use for Old Slave Quarters.” Davidsonian. 3 March
\n1961.<\/i><\/p>\n

Named for:<\/b> Thomas Sparrow family<\/p>\n

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\nto Campus Building List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dates: Built in 1840s. Boarding house 1915 into 1920s. Acquired by College in 1908. Remodeled in 1961, 1974. Campus Security office 1974-1990. Physical Plant office 1990-1999. Quote: This little house, which stands next to the college laundry, was built before the Civil War to house servants for the “Sparrow’s Nest.” A certain Mr. Sparrow, one […]<\/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\/1728"}],"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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22007,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/22007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}