http://hdl.handle.net/10090/478 Sewanee http://dspace.nitle.org/retrieve/9645 http://hdl.handle.net/10090/478 Search the Channel search http://dspace.nitle.org/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10090/5195 Title: Waring Webb House 1879 <br/> <br/>Authors: Gailor, Charlotte <br/> <br/>Abstract: The Mountain News of April 22, 1879 says, "Miss (Annie) Gibson is to have a new residence built on what is known as the Shaller lot. (Where does this quote end?) West End is improving. Mrs. Glass thought she had built it for her sister, Mrs. Conover, but apparently she left the big house and lived here with her sister. Mr. Shaller's name was on the lease in 1875, but evidently he never built on the lot. Mr. Gibson seems to have had the lease until 1906 when Dr. Cain bought the house. His son-in-law, Dr. Hayden West, had his office here until his death in 1916. After the fire which destroyed the Weber house, Mrs. West, the widow of Dr. West, lived here until her death in 1944. For a while during the early twenties, this was the chapter house of the Academy's Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Fraternity. The Waring Webbs bought it in 1948. The following year, this young professor of botany died suddenly of polio, just before the birth of their fifth child. His widow, the former Maria Tucker (of the family of Episcopal Bishops), continued to live here until the children were grown. Maria has been Academy nurse for more than 25 years--since 1950, and was also night nurse at Emerald-Hodgson hospital for many of these years. In 1967 her generous gift to the Woods Laboratories provided its green-house, a memorial to Professor Paul Hamilton Waring Webb. Over the years, the house grew with the family, and in 1973 Maria moved into a smaller house and sold this one to Percy Warner Frazer who uses it as a summer place.