Robert Emlen
Robert Emlen
changed exterior size
(University Hall) is the same size and shape, and the exterior has not been substantially altered, but it was always being changed over the years.
fits retro
It was a hodgepodge of retro fits and so they completely gutted it and rebuilt it.
color paid people
Some of the people of color get paid their own money, and some of them don't.
almost along everybody floor fourth free guys irish mental picture sand side sitting slave
I have this mental picture of free guys and slave guys working side by side, along with these Irish guys who are shoveling sand and lugging lumber up to the fourth floor - and everybody sitting down having coffee. It just is almost unbelievable for us to picture, but that's the kind of inference you get from these records.
carrying either guys kid maybe upstairs water
You could go either way with it - maybe it was her 12-year-old kid who was just carrying water upstairs for the guys to drink.