ANDREW JACKSON HERMITAGE
INTRODUCTION
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States who has owned this plantation. The hermitage is a historical museum and plantation which served as Andrew’s resting place. He started living at this property until he retired from public life. It is named as the National Historic landmark.
ARCHITECTURE
Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson spotted is like the house and instructed to build the hermitage in a scheduled glade which was quite near the log cabin where they lived. The whole area or complex formed the First Hermitage and the structures known as the East, West, and Southeast cabins.
The mansion was a two-storied building that consists of four rooms on the ground floor and four rooms on the second level. Each of the rooms contains a fireplace and chimney.
The mansion consists of a rectangular shape design about 104 feet from the east to the west and 54 feet from the north to the south. The structure of the main block has four rooms and one big hall in the center.
The design of the hall is painted dark with plank flooring and Joseph Dufour-et Lie of Paris decorated the designs. The structure has a high gloss paint to reflect the fireplace features called the ‘eight of January’.
The fours of the second level were mostly for the other family members and guests named Sam Houston an American soldier and presidents named James K. Polk and Martin Van Buren.
In the year 1828, Rachel Jackson was buried in her beloved garden. And in 1831 classicizing temples and monuments were constructed for Rachel’s grave.
HISTORY OF HERMITAGE (Museum)
Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel Jackson shifted o his two storied building, built to resist Indian attacks. The area or apartment is known historically as The First Hermitage.
In the year 1834, the interior of the building was damaged by the fire and then the house was rebuilt. Then in 1837 Jackson retired to the hermitage and in 1845 he died and his grave was buried next to his wife.
As Jackson was alive he expanded the plantation with 200 acres which were used for cotton plantation, food production and breeding, commodity crop, and also training of racehorses.
Andrew’s son Alfred Jackson, as he was adopted, started selling off some portions of estates due to clearing all dues and debts. The last 500 acres he sold in the year 1856 and the whole property is now under the Federal Government of United States Military Academy.
CONCLUSION
The grandson of Andrew Jackson was the last one who looks after the Hermitage but they moved out in the year 1893 and then the property was legally ceased by the government and was opened to the public by the ladies ‘Hermitage Association’. Later this hermitage is deeded by the state of Tennessee to use this building as the museum which contains Jackson’s life and history. Each year more than millions of visitors visit there to see the mansion and it is the fourth most visited presidential residence in the country.
INTRODUCTION
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States who has owned this plantation. The hermitage is a historical museum and plantation which served as Andrew’s resting place. He started living at this property until he retired from public life. It is named as the National Historic landmark.
ARCHITECTURE
Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson spotted is like the house and instructed to build the hermitage in a scheduled glade which was quite near the log cabin where they lived. The whole area or complex formed the First Hermitage and the structures known as the East, West, and Southeast cabins.
The mansion was a two-storied building that consists of four rooms on the ground floor and four rooms on the second level. Each of the rooms contains a fireplace and chimney.
The mansion consists of a rectangular shape design about 104 feet from the east to the west and 54 feet from the north to the south. The structure of the main block has four rooms and one big hall in the center.
The design of the hall is painted dark with plank flooring and Joseph Dufour-et Lie of Paris decorated the designs. The structure has a high gloss paint to reflect the fireplace features called the ‘eight of January’.
The fours of the second level were mostly for the other family members and guests named Sam Houston an American soldier and presidents named James K. Polk and Martin Van Buren.
In the year 1828, Rachel Jackson was buried in her beloved garden. And in 1831 classicizing temples and monuments were constructed for Rachel’s grave.
HISTORY OF HERMITAGE (Museum)
Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel Jackson shifted o his two storied building, built to resist Indian attacks. The area or apartment is known historically as The First Hermitage.
In the year 1834, the interior of the building was damaged by the fire and then the house was rebuilt. Then in 1837 Jackson retired to the hermitage and in 1845 he died and his grave was buried next to his wife.
As Jackson was alive he expanded the plantation with 200 acres which were used for cotton plantation, food production and breeding, commodity crop, and also training of racehorses.
Andrew’s son Alfred Jackson, as he was adopted, started selling off some portions of estates due to clearing all dues and debts. The last 500 acres he sold in the year 1856 and the whole property is now under the Federal Government of United States Military Academy.
CONCLUSION
The grandson of Andrew Jackson was the last one who looks after the Hermitage but they moved out in the year 1893 and then the property was legally ceased by the government and was opened to the public by the ladies ‘Hermitage Association’. Later this hermitage is deeded by the state of Tennessee to use this building as the museum which contains Jackson’s life and history. Each year more than millions of visitors visit there to see the mansion and it is the fourth most visited presidential residence in the country.