Architectural Survey Report: The Bryan House (Supplementary Study)

Edwards, Henry

The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Rebellion", Gettysburg was the Civil War's bloodiest battle and was also the inspiration for President Abraham Lincoln's immortal "Gettysburg Address". The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. This report incorporates part of the work of a summer team stationed at Gettysburg National Military Park to make record drawings of Battlefield structures under the direction of the Eastern Office, Division of Design and Construction, National Park Service. It was decided that an additional study might be made of the Bryan House in the light of new evidence which became available when the greater part of the old framing was exposed during the course of an incomplete restoration undertaken in 1951, and that the results of this study might be incorporated into certain drawings that would supplement the five-sheet HABS set now on file at the Library or Congress (Survey Pa. 342) which was prepared by Martin S. Kermacy (no date but probably 1935). This resulted in two additional drawings; one showing a restored isometric framing plan (partly conjectural) with details, and the other, four conjectural elevations of the building as it might have appeared in 1863. The observations, study and conclusions that led to the making of these supplementary drawings is the subject of this report.

Architectural Survey Report: The Bryan House (Supplementary Study)

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