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The Oaks
1899
The residence of Booker T. Washington and his family was constructed eighteen years after he began his life's work establishing Tuskegee Norman and Industrial Institute. The home was built on property owned by Dr. Washington, adjacent to the campus.
The house was later called The Oaks. Brick making and construction was completed entirely by Tuskegee students and faculty. Washington said, "The actual sight of a first class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build or perhaps could build."
Robert R. Taylor, the first African American graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, designed the Oaks. |