In 1870-71 Charles Montgomery Andres and his wife Nancy Ann Waddle Andres started construction on a dogtrot house on a small rise in what was then Hempstead County, Arkansas. Fourteen decades later his great-grandson, George Sidney Smith, and his wife, Bobbie Jean McCarty Smith, started construction of a dogtrot on the same location.
Rocks and bricks from the first structure's two fireplaces will be combined into the Smith's fireplace. Wood from a two-room cypress house on the property was salvaged and made into furniture -- corner cabinet, wine rack/table, mantle and hanging artwork -- for the new structure.
The Smiths retirement home was built to accommodate visits by their extended families, and especially for their grandchildren: Bryan, Jordyn, Brayden and Colton, and great-niece Jayden.
(NOTE: The date on the photo is in error. The picture was taken June 25, 2011.)
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