Faculty House,
University of South Carolina, Columbia
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This is a ink stipple drawing of Faculty House, a faculty club, but originally it was built as a faculty residence. A small outbuilding was erected on the premises especially for Professor Maximillian LaBorde, who found the size of the residence "uncomfortable" for his family of ten children. During the Horseshoe renovation project in the 1970s, evidence of slave quarters was found on the third floor; a deed for a slave named Jack was also discovered. The early interior architecture of McCutchen House was described as "showing the taste of the times and as a simplified version of the sophisticated Charleston architecture." In the restoration process, the original window glass remaining was used wherever possible. The house retains its original frame of hand-hewn timbers with plaster walls on wooden lath. It is named for Professor George McCutchen, who lived in the house from 1915 to World War II when the University halted the practice of providing on-campus housing for faculty
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