BGuthrie Photos: PA -- Friendship Hill NHS

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[1] FHILL_031123_053.JPG	[2] FHILL_031123_068.JPG	[3] FHILL_031123_079.JPG	[4] FHILL_031123_138.JPG	[5] FHILL_031123_149.JPG
[6] FHILL_031123_164.JPG	[7] FHILL_031123_181.JPG	[8] FHILL_031123_184.JPG	[9] FHILL_031123_194.JPG	[10] FHILL_031123_205.JPG
[11] FHILL_031123_212.JPG	[12] FHILL_031123_231.JPG	[13] FHILL_031123_236.JPG	[14] FHILL_031123_242.JPG	[15] FHILL_031123_264.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FHILL_031123_053.JPG: This is a room in the frame house. Since vandals twice burned the house in 1979 after the Park Service acquired it, a lot of this was completely destroyed and artifacts are hard to find.
2. FHILL_031123_068.JPG: Albert Gallatin
3. FHILL_031123_079.JPG: This is a helpful model that shows you what's where. The Brick House is the oldest part of the house and started to be built in 1789 when Gallatin bought the property. In 1798, he added the Frame House. While he was on assignment in Paris, his son supervised the addition of the Stone House which was nearly finished by the time he returned in 1823. The Stone Kitchen, which is now the entrance for the visitor center, was added in 1824. The lower right was built around 1895 as was the stable area on the right. In 1900, the top part was added.
4. FHILL_031123_138.JPG: This is from the State Dining Room, added in 1895
5. FHILL_031123_164.JPG: The far left side of the house is the South Bedroom Wing which was added in 1901-02. The Stone House, on the right, was part of Gallatin's additions. In between, on the left-hand side of it, are the Brick House and Frame House that Gallatin started with.
6. FHILL_031123_181.JPG: Sophia Allegre Gallatin -- Gallatin's First Wife Albert Gallatin met Sophia Allegre while staying at her mother's boarding house in Richmond, Virginia, during the mid-1780's. Against her mother's wishes, Sophia married Albert on May 14, 1789. As the newlyweds travelled to their wilderness home at Friendship Hill, Sophia wrote to her mother, "...forgive dear mother, and generously accept again your poor Sophia... Could you then form a wish to destroy the future peace of your child, and prevent her from being united to the man of her choice? He is perhaps not a very handsome man, but he is possessed of more essential qualities, which I shall not pretend to enumerate, ..." Tragically, Sophia fell ill five months later and died at Friendship Hill. At her request, Albert buried Sophia in an unmarked grave atop a hill overlooking the Monongahela River.
7. FHILL_031123_194.JPG: Friendship Hill -- Gallatin's Wilderness Home Albert Gallatin bought this land in 1786 when this area was known as the "western country." Three years later he constructed a two-story brick house at Friendship Hill for his new bride, Sophia. After Sophia died, Gallatin built additions to the house in 1798 and 1823 for his second wife, Hannah, and their children. By the end of Gallatin's ownership, Friendship Hill included a barn, a well, vegetable and pleasure gardens, an orchard, and a gardener's cottage. However, since Gallatin's political posts kept him from living at Friendship Hill for years at a time, he finally sold his isolated estate in 1832, settling in New York City.
8. FHILL_031123_212.JPG: Monongahela River -- River Route to the West The Monongahela River served as one of many "river highways" to the western territories. Since there were few overland roads west of here, most settlers rafted north (to your right) on the Monongahela River to Pittsburgh, then down the Ohio River to new opportunity. As a land speculator, Albert Gallatin hoped to prosper from his river location and the town of New Geneva that he established nearby. But 19th-century canals and roads by-passed this area, dashing his dreams of riches. Today this view west no longer looks upon the wilderness Gallatin knew, but upon the industry he envisioned.
9. FHILL_031123_231.JPG: This picture of the Stone Kitchen, which serves as the visitor center bookstore, has been left as it was after the vandals burned the place in 1979.
10. FHILL_031123_236.JPG: The part of the house on the left is the Stone House, Gallatin's second addition to the house. The part of the house on the right is the State Dining Room which was added in 1895 after Gallatin's time.
Wikipedia Description: Friendship Hill National Historic Site
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Friendship Hill National Historic Site, maintained by the National Park Service, was the home of early American politician Albert Gallatin. It overlooks the Monongahela River near Point Marion, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh.

The home itself is made up of six sections. The earliest of which is the original brick house built in 1789. This original house is built in the Federalist style with a Flemish bond. Along the north side of the brick house, a simple frame house was added in 1798. A stone kitchen was added in 1823, a State Dining Room in 1895, a south bedroom wing was finished in 1902, and the servant's quarters were added in 1903.

The house was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 12, 1965, and was therefore administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places with its establishment on October 15, 1966. The national historic site was established on November 10, 1978, and is administered under Fort Necessity National Battlefield.
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