Ben Lomond House

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Historic Wallpaper Specialties</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historic Wallpaper Specialties"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historic Wallpaper Specialties"><U><B>Home </B></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historic Wallpaper Specialties"><U><B>  </B></U></A><B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="zuber_wallpaper.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Zuber Wallpaper Installation Specialist"><U><B>Jim's Profile </B></U></A><B>      </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reproduction Wallpaper Installation Spec"><U><B>Specialties</B></U></A><B>   </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Microsoft Sans Serif" ><B> </B><A HREF="historic_house_museum_wallpaper_projects.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historical Wallpaper Portfolio"><U><B>    Portfolio  </B></U></A><B> </B></FONT><B>    </B><A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historic Wallpaper Resources"><U><B>Historic Wallpaper Resources </B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reproduction Wallpaper Installation Spec"><U><B> Contact Jim</B></U></A><B>  </B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frederick Douglass"><U>Frederick Douglass House</U></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700a099000000.png" HEIGHT="11" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ben Lomond House</div> <div> <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Old Kentucky Home"><U>My Old  Kentucky Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meridian Opera House"><U>Meridian Opera </U></A><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meridian Opera House"><U>House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="McFaddinWard House "><U>McFaddin-Ward House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hixon House"><U>Hixon House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Magoffin Home State Historic Site"><U>Magoffin Home State Historic Site</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chickasaw White House"><U>Chickasaw White House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="President Andrew Johnson Homestead"><U>President Andrew Johnson Homestead</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wheatland: Home of President James Bucha"><U>President James Buchanan's Wheatland</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lyman Mission House"><U>Lyman Museum</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Boldman House"><U>Boldman  House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U>Kenmore</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="washington_place__reproduction_wallpaper_in_hawaii.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reproduction wallpaper in Hawaii"><U>Washington Place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="reproduction_wallpaper_in_kentucky_s_farmington.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reproduction wallpaper in Kentuckys Farm"><U>Farmington</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="muslin_over_planks_to_receive_wallpaper.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Historic wallpaper and muslin for Color"><U>Colorado Cabin</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="fort_hill__home_of_john_c_calhoun.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reproduction wallpaper for Fort Hill Hom"><U>V.Pres  John C..Calhoun's "Fort Hill"</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="victorian_wallpaper_for_the_harper_house.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Victorian wallpaper for the Harper House"><U>Harper House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="restoration_wallpaper_for_kentucky_s_waveland.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Restoration wallpaper for Kentuckys Wave"><U>Waveland</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="muslin_and_reprodcution_wallpaper_for_the_josephus_w__hall_house.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Muslin and reproduction wallpaper for th"><U>Josephus W. Hall House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="blockprinted_wallpaper_for_the_bolling_eldridge_house.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bolling Eldridge House: Blockprinted Zub"><U>Bolling Eldridge House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Davenport House"><U>Davenport House</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Zuber Scenic Installation"><U>Zuber Scenic Installation</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Ben Lomond House</I><I> Historic Site</I></div> <bR> <div> Located in Manassas, VA, this house was built by Benjamin Tasker Chinn, a fourth generation descendant of Robert "King" Carter. The house was named after Mount Lomond in Scotland.  "Ben" meaning mountain in Gaelic. It  is a two  story gabled-roofed Federal style house built of locally quarried red sandstone and was originally covered with yellow-gray stucco. The house was completed in 1832.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="3f62de20.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="226" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="5"></div> <div> Today, 6.5 acres remain of the original 730 acres purchased by Benjamin Chinn. Three of the original outbuildings remain: The dairy: the smokehouse the slave quarters. </div> <div> Inside the house, graffiti left behind by Confederate and Union soldiers can be seen on the interior walls. The signatures and messages are currently being conserved.</div> <div> During the month of March 2006, Historic Wallpaper Specialties was called upon to assist in the graffiti conservation. While the plaster walls had wallpaper prior to and after the Civil War, during the Battle of Manassass soldiers found bare plaster walls.  And to amuse themselves many left their names and some left messages.  </div> <div> Our job was to apply an acid free lining paper which will protect the graffiti from the damaging affect of UV rays. Several selected areas were left open and will be encased with UV glass and remain visible for the public. </div> <div> This is the only historic project HWS has been involved in within which no reproduction wallpaper was used. The idea being that the walls were bare during the Civil War so that the white lining paper, while serving to protect the graffiti also represents the plaster "look".  To generate even more of a  "plaster look" the white lining paper was painted off white gray.</div> <div> During the interpretive period, the civil war era, there was no wallpaper. Thus, correctly so, wallpaper was not included in the restoration. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Here are photos from the project:</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 277 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3fbc1010.jpg" border=0 width="193" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jimmy Yates trimming liner</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3fdc1010.jpg" border=0 width="193" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Eileen Carroll sizing walls</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 279 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3ffbfff0.jpg" border=0 width="191" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Marva Hereferd installing acid free liner</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="401c2030.jpg" border=0 width="194" height="259" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jimmy painting liner<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 272 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="403bdfc0.jpg" border=0 width="189" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Original interior wall</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="405bcfb0.jpg" border=0 width="188" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> original interor wall</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>