Bulloch Hall, Greek Revival house museum in Roswell, United States.
Bulloch Hall is a white wooden Greek Revival house with a triangular pedimented gable above the front facade. Four plain white columns support a full-width porch, and the centered paneled door has glass sidelights and a transom. Tall shuttered windows flank the door, a smaller shuttered window sits in the gable, and a short flight of steps with thin metal handrails leads to the entrance above a brick foundation course.
Major James Stephens Bulloch, a Georgia coast planter invited by Roswell King, had Willis Ball design the Greek Revival house on a ten-acre plot; the family moved in during 1839, with completion dated about 1840. Enslaved African Americans built it and worked its cotton land and household. Martha "Mittie" Bulloch married Theodore Roosevelt Sr. in the dining room on December 22, 1853; their son, the future president, visited in 1905.
Martha "Mittie" Bulloch married Theodore Roosevelt Sr. in the dining room on December 22, 1853; a bridesmaid, Eva King Baker, later described the wedding to Margaret Mitchell for a 1923 Atlanta Journal article. The household was run by enslaved workers remembered by name, among them the cook Maum Rose, the housekeeper Maum Charlotte and the children's nursemaid Maum Grace.
Bulloch Hall stands at 180 Bulloch Avenue, a short walk north of Roswell's town square, and is owned and run as a house museum by the city of Roswell. The house sits on a rise above the street, so the four-column porch and pediment are visible from the road before you reach the steps. Visitors enter by the front door between the two metal handrails; the brick foundation course along the base marks the original 1839–1840 construction.
A surviving list names 33 enslaved people tied to Bulloch Hall, among them the cook Maum Rose, the housekeeper Maum Charlotte, the butler and coachman William Jackson, called Daddy William, and the children's nursemaid Grace Robinson, called Maum Grace.
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