Building Projects (continued)
We had no room for the books and no room for an operational quilt frame.
We would have to add on to the house. However, there just wasn’t a good way
add a room. So we built an outbuilding, but it was not just an ordinary building.
We had been to Jefferson Davis’ home between Biloxi and Gulfport on the Gulf coast
of Mississippi. He had a library separate from the house. It was a small
building with a covered porch all the way around the building. We used the idea
for the design of our library and placed it out in the woods about 150 feet
southeast of the house. The library itself was only 14 feet square but with the
porch all around it the structure was about 27 feet square when you take into
account the overhanging eaves. The floor was oak, the ceiling was high with
two skylights. There were oak bookcases covering two of the walls that were
especially build by my brother in his workshop in the panhandle of Florida.
They were beautiful pieces of furniture. As it was with the gazebo, there was a
railing all the way around the library porch that matched the house in design
and color.