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Last anniversary I was accustomed this account of the old Wiggins abode that already stood area Rhea Public Library is today. The abode was broken bottomward about 1972.
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This abode was absolutely a Victorian castle. It had aggregate a Victorian abode is declared to have, including spindles, gingerbread, towers, cupolas, decrepit bottle and affront work.
A accomplished archetype of a Queen Anne house, it displayed best of the requirements that ascertain the appearance — a hipped roof, wraparound porch, absorbed gazebo, angry bannisters and admirable spindles.
Built in the backward 1880s by A.B. Lamb, admiral of the Bank of Henry, the abode was the grandest Victorian abode in Paris. The advanced accomplish that led to the wide, applique abundant burdened balustrade had massive column posts.
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The balustrade ran beyond the advanced of the abode and had a little gazebo with a aerial acicular roof. The decrepit bottle was absolutely wonderful.
The abode was three belief aerial with balk floors that were kept heavily polished. The ample backyard had adumbration copse encased by a wrought adamant fence.
Judge Lamb was built-in in Paris in 1859, was ambassador of Paris, served in the Legistature and as a affiliate of the cloister of appeals. He was on the board to body the Henry County Courthouse in 1899.
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Both Lamb and his wife died 1940. When Lamb died my grandmother, Mrs. S.J. Routon was in the annual business and she recived one of the finest orders she anytime accustomed for a floral architecture alleged “Gates Ajar.” A ample architecture of accessible gates fabricated of authentic white lilies and added white flowers, it was a showpiece.
The Lambs had one daughter, Lucille Lamb. Pictures appearance her as a blond. In 1920 she affiliated physician Milton Wiggins. The Wigginses lived with her parents. He congenital a abode abaft this house, adverse Caldwell Avenue and it afterwards became accepted as Wiggins Clinic and afterwards Nobles Hospital and Rhea Clinic.
The Wigginses had one son, Milton Lamb Wiggins, additionally a physician, who lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Mrs. Lamb was Minnie Caldwell afore she affiliated A.B. Lamb. She was the babe of James Franklin Caldwell, who was the son of Col. R.D. Caldwell. Best of the accomplished homes on West Washington Street had a Caldwell connection.
To body his admirable home, Lamb apprenticed Albert Nathaniel Cameron, a arctic adept carpenter and woodright, who came actuality afterwards the Civil War. It was said that Judge (Clinton) Aden, who had been a carpenter himself in his youth, helped this arctic architect get started.
Cameron gave to Paris her greatest Victorian houses, including the Johnson house, Trevathan abode and Lamb abode accepted as “Poplars” on West Washington Street, the McNeill abode on Blythe Street and Cavitt Place on Poplar Street. All were congenital amid 1884-1891.
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The Lamb abode was purchased in 1971 by the backward W.G. Rhea, a surgeon at Nobles Clinic. The abode was afterwards broken bottomward to accomplish way for Rhea Public Library.
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