Twickenham Receipts and Sketches
Twickenham Receipts and Sketches is a cookbook that was published by the Twickenham Historic Preservation District Association in 1978. In addition to hundreds of recipes, it contains drawings of Twickenham houses and scenes by local artists such as Lee Harless, L. Trice Hinds and Albert Lane, as well as descriptions of the houses.
BIBB-HUTCHENS HOUSE, Williams Avenue
This handsome Greek Revival home was completed ca. 1832, incorporating an earlier Federal house, ca. 1818. Gov. Thomas Bibb copied his Limestone Conty residence, Belle Mina, for his daughter, Adeline Bibb Bradley. The Beirne and the Butler families lived there over the years. In 1927 the house returned to the Bibb descendants who still occupy it. Sketched by Lee Harless, Jr. in 1978.
About the Bibb-Hutchens house:My favorite memory is of Christmas Eve when family members, young and old, would gather after the Christmas Festival at the Church of the Nativity. "Holiday supper", hosted by my Aunt Ellen (Newman) and Aunt Susie (Hutchens), meant a special children's table complete with thick creamy eggnog flavored with vanilla and special Christmas treats. We children played in the front hall where the big cedar tree stood with its colored lights and ornaments and piles of gifts beneath. The time came for the Hutchens children to hang their stockings from the mantel in their grandparents' room, and the rest of us went home to do the same. My children and I will always cherish such memories.
Mrs. Ronald (Anna Ruth White) Sparks
Item 11 of 72 (5850)
Source: Lee Harless, Jr.Date: 1978Rights: Reproduced from "Twickenham Receipts and Sketches" published by the Twickenham Historic Preservation District Association, Inc., 1978, with the permission of THPDA and the artist.
