Global InformationBulloch Hall information
Bulloch Hall | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
U.S. Historic district Contributing property | |
 Bulloch Hall is where Theodore Roosevelt's parents were married, in December 1853. | |
| Location | 180 Bulloch Avenue, Roswell, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 34°0′54.51″N 84°22′4.17″W / 34.0151417°N 84.3678250°W |
| Built | 1839 |
| Built by | Willis Ball |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| Part of | Roswell Historic District (ID74000682[1]) |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000276 [1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 27, 1971 |
| Designated CP | May 2, 1974 |
Bulloch Hall is a Greek Revival mansion in Roswell, Georgia, built in 1839. It is one of several historically significant buildings in the city and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is where Martha Bulloch Roosevelt ("Mittie"), mother of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, lived as a child. It is also where she married Theodore Roosevelt's father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. The descendants of Theodore Roosevelt and his three siblings - Anna, Elliott, and Corinne are therefore descendants of Archibald Bulloch, the first Governor of Georgia (1730–1777).
The antebellum mansion was built by Mittie's father, Major James Stephens Bulloch. He was a prominent planter from the Georgia coast, who was invited to the new settlement by his friend Roswell King. After the death of his first wife Hester Amarintha "Hettie" Elliott - mother of his son James D. Bulloch - Bulloch married the widow of his first wife's father, Martha "Patsy" Stewart Elliot, and had four more children:
- Anna Bulloch
- Martha Bulloch
- Charles Bulloch (who died young)
- Irvine Bulloch.
Major Bulloch selected a ten-acre plot of land and engaged a skilled builder, Willis Ball, to design and construct an elegant Greek Revival home. The Bulloch family lived in an abandoned Cherokee farmhouse while slaves and trained laborers built the house. In 1839, Major Bulloch and his family moved into the completed house.
Soon Bulloch also owned land for cotton production and held enslaved African-Americans to work his fields. According to the 1850 Slave Schedules [1], Martha Stewart Elliott Bulloch, by then widowed a second time, owned 31 enslaved African-Americans. They mostly labored on cotton and crop production; but some would have worked in the home, on cooking and domestic tasks to support the family. Some of the known slaves who worked in the house were "Maum" Rose (cook), "Maum" Charlotte (housekeeper), "Maum" Grace (nursemaid), "Daddy" William, "Daddy" Luke, and Henry.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.