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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 21, 1963
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Photos by Judi Thomas and Murrel Bland
Tom Maupin, owner of the "castle" at 1613 Tennessee, surveys the swimming pool in the backyard of his 1860 period house. The sculpture piece in the foreground spouts water into his circular swimming pool.
Historical Houses
One of the houses in Mrs. Stough's study serves as evidence that some of the raiders rode into Lawrence on what is now East 19th street.
THE HOUSE STILL standing at 1119 East 19th street. Robert Miller, a Southern cotton plantation owner. A boy named William, who lived there, greeted several men as they rode into town the morning of Aug.21, 1863.
According to Mrs. Stough's research, William later rode into town himself to check on some smoke he noticed from the settlement. The raiders chased the boy, but William escaped into a cornfield and later helped carry bodies to the Methodist Church.
Judge Hugh Means, a lawyer who was district court judge here for 32 years, also tells about the house located on the southeast corner at 8th and Louisiana.
MRS. STOUGH HAS discovered some of the background of a limestone house located at 800 Louisiana St., a home that has been restored over the years. The house was built by Swedish workers who were constructing a windmill at 9th and Emerv streets.
JUDGE MEANS, WHO has resided in Douglas County since 1871, said he has been told that two men who were living in the house were killed by Quantrill's raiders. He said another man survived the raid by pretending he was dead.
The house at 615 Tennessee was built in 1857 by the brother of Ferdinand Fuller, one of the founders of Lawrence. About 1900, Phi Delta Theta fraternity rented the house.
The house at 1008 Ohio was being built at the time of Quantrill's Raid. The builder, George Bell, was killed in the raid.
Bell's widow completed the house and she and her children owned it until their deaths.
EXCEPT FOR THE addition of dormers, the house on Ohio Street looks today as it appeared in the 1860's. Mrs. Stough has learned.
Some old houses in Lawrence lack a connection with Quantrill's Raid, but still have colorful backgrounds. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, 1425 Tennessee, was built in 1872 by John Palmer Usher, secretary of interior in President Lincoln's first cabinet.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity once occupied the house at 1015 Tennessee, a house built by Amos Blood in 1868. Blood, Mrs. Stough says, was called the first unlawful mayor of Lawrence.
What is now a house at 14th and Louisiana, was once the barn of Charles A. Robinson, founder of Lawrence, first governor of Kansas and first KU chancellor.
This is an example of the highly decorative porch arch at 1015 Tennessee. Nachman Aronszajn, professor of mathematics, is the present owner of the house.
This is a gas lamp in the front yard of the "castle."
Mrs. Erna F. McCoy and her mother sit on the porch of the McCoy home at 743 Indiana. Mrs. McCoy's 89-year-old mother has lived in the house for all but six years of her life.
This house at 1701 Tennessee was rebuilt after Quantrill's raid. Its present owner is Clyde Hyder, professor of English and editor of the University Press.