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Popular Science Monthly 



A Model of Joel Chandler Harris' Old 

 Homestead 



FOR the encouragement of a fund for 

 the purchase of Snap Bean Farm, 

 famous as the home of Joel Chandler 

 Harris ("Uncle Remus"), a doll's house 

 made to resemble the Harris home — 

 "Wren's Nest" — has been built by Eli J. 

 Memory, of Richmond, Va. 



#The minia- 

 ture "Wren's 

 Nest" became 

 popular with 

 the young 

 "^ folks. Sub- 



scriptions to 

 the Snap Bean 

 Farm fund 

 were readily 

 forthcoming, 

 because each 

 contributor 



had an opportunity to draw for the doll's 

 house. 



The little house required two arduous 

 weeks for its construction. It is made 

 of eighty tiny "logs" cut along the 

 banks of Peachtree Creek near Atlanta. 

 The structure is forty-five inches long, 

 forty-three inches high and twenty-eight 

 inches wide. It has a twelve-inch 

 veranda on the front and an eight-inch 

 porch in the rear. There is a nine-inch 

 hallway from front to rear, and the 

 interior contains four rooms and five 

 doorways. The roof is arranged on 

 hinges so that it can be lifted to inspect 

 the interior. 



In building the house, Mr. Memory 

 used one thousand one hundred and 

 forty-one pieces of pine, willow, ash, 

 mulberry and grapevine. The roof is 

 made up of six hundred and forty-four 

 pine shingles made from lathing. 



To raise a fund for the purchase of Joel Chandler Harris' home, a doll's house, 

 a replica of the Harris home, was made the prize in a lottery 



