Wanamaker unveils 2005 calendar
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The limited edition calendars comprised of six suitable-for-framing prints are priced at $20 each and can be purchased in McMinnville at Monty Wanamaker’s Southern Museum & Galleries at 210 E. Main St., phone 931-507-8102. They will also be available at Martin-Glenn Glass Company, 221 E. Morford St., 931-473-2102; and Antiques on Main, 123 E. Main Street, 931-473-1032. Mail orders are welcomed for an additional $2.50 each to cover postage.
Two extremely rare images are included in this year’s presentation.
Forest Home, the legendary homestead of Col. John H. French and his wife, poetess and writer Lucy Virginia Smith French, was located on a 640-acre tract of land a short distance west of the town of McMinnville. This drawing was created from an image of the residence recently discovered in a magazine article published over 100 years ago.
A photo of an early log structure believed to be Warren County’s first courthouse at Tanyard Springs was found included in papers belonging to noted historian Blanche Spurlock Bentley. The first courts in Warren County were held in the house of Joseph Westmoreland at Tanyard Springs and in a log house erected on the summit of a hill near there. Wanamaker’s wash drawing was created from that early photograph.
Additional images in the new calendar are a portrait of pioneer photographer William Spencer “Dad” Lively, Hargrove Office Supply building on Court Square erected in 1910 by Jesse Walling; Shiloh Methodist Church which had its formation in 1809; and the Brown Hotel, built in 1926 and demolished in the early 1990s.