Stories Written in Stone
Author(s): Suzanne E Ubick
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
When Leland and Jane Stanford bought the Mayfield Grange property in 1876, it was as a country home. Little was done to the house that had been built by George Gordon in 1864 until 1888, after the death of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., when extensive remodeling was carried out. The house was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, and the area reworked for new university buildings. In 1995, campus archaeologist Dr. Laura Jones discovered the long-buried remnants of the house. Among the artifacts recovered was a large quantity of architectural stone – slate and marble. Analysis of this material sheds interesting sidelights on the way the Stanfords viewed the building as its symbolic values changed.
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Stories Written in Stone. Suzanne E Ubick. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457491)
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Keywords
General
architectural stone
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symbolic expression
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use change
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Late 19th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 487