Pebble Hill
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Scott-Yarbrough House
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The house in 2008
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| Location: | 101 DeBardeleben St., Auburn, Alabama |
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| Coordinates: | 32°36′23″N 85°28′21″W / 32.60639°N 85.4725°WCoordinates: 32°36′23″N 85°28′21″W / 32.60639°N 85.4725°W |
| Built: | 1847 |
| Architect: | Unknown |
| Architectural style: | Greek Revival |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: |
75000318 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | April 16, 1975 |
Pebble Hill, also known as the Scott-Yarbrough House, is an antebellum cottage in Auburn, Alabama listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It currently serves as the location of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.
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[edit] History
Colonial Nathaniel J. Scott built Pebble Hill in 1847 at the center of a 100-acre (0.40 km2) plantation. The structure was built in the Greek Revival style with hand-hewn heart of pine floors and joists and rafters held together by wooden pegs. During the Civil War, Wilson's Raiders looted the home, but were unable to find many of the valuables, which had been buried near a spring on the property. By the end of the Civil War, Scott was forced to sell the home, which saw a number of different owners over the following decades. In 1912, the home was purchased by Cecil S. Yarbrough, a state representative and three-time mayor of Auburn. The home remained in the Yarbrough family until 1974, when it was purchased and restored by the Auburn Heritage Association. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 1975. In 1985 the property was donated to Auburn University, which located its Center for the Arts & Humanities in the structure.
[edit] Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities
The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities is Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts center for public engagement. It strengthens the bonds between the College of Liberal Arts and the public by creating and implementing arts and humanities programs that explore our individual and collective experiences, values, and identities through the past, in the present, and for the future. The center also creates occasions and space for dialogue, intellectual community, and cross-disciplinary scholarship.
The Center was established by Auburn University in 1985 to develop and offer programming in Alabama schools, towns, and communities that strengthens the bond between the academic community, the arts, and the general public. Its overarching goal is to help create both appetite and capacity for cultural and educational programming in communities of all sizes and resources.
In 1988, the Center received its first major National Endowment for the Humanities grant to conduct statewide reading-discussion programs. "Read Alabama!" set a standard for impact and outreach. In the years since, the Center has conducted three more NEH-funded statewide programs and created dozens of smaller series on state and national history, culture, and literature. It has also sponsored hundreds of one-time programs featuring writers, artists, and scholars in schools, libraries, and communities throughout the state. Thousands of Alabamians of all ages and backgrounds have come together at Center programs to learn, experience, and share.
From 2000 to 2009, the Center was home to the Alabama Center for the Book, the state affiliate of the national Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Among its programs while at the Center were the Boorstin Award-winning Alabama Gets Caught Reading reading promotion poster series, the River of Words and Letters About Literature arts/writing contests, and the Alabama Book Festival.
Commemorating the life and work of a beloved first lady of Auburn University, the Center was named in honor of Caroline Marshall Draughon in 2007. Born in Orrville, Dallas County, Alabama, in 1910, Draughon came to Auburn with her husband, Ralph Brown Draughon, in the fall of 1931 when he accepted a position in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute history department. From 1947, when Dr. Draughon was named acting president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, until his retirement in 1965 as president of Auburn University, "Miss Caroline" was a familiar and welcoming figure on campus.
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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Lee County Historical Society (1978). Scott-Yarbrough House. Historic Marker. Located at 101 Debardeleben Street, Auburn, Ala.
- Logue, Mickey & Simms, Jack (1996). Auburn: A Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village, Revised. Auburn, Ala. ISBN 1-885860-08-0
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