Historic Hospitality

In 1865, it is said, Samuel Hoge, a Nettle Creek pioneer, built a mansion for his favorite daughter, Charlotte, at the time of her marriage to Capt. William Reardon Jr. as a wedding gift. Reardon had returned to the Morris area after surviving the siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War. The home was built on the north side of what is now U.S. 6, just west of Pioneer Road, not far from Hoge's home. The mansion is an example of Victorian Italianate Architecture that was popular at the time of the Civil War. Rebelling against formal, classical architecture, Italianate became one of the most-popular styles in the United States, with its low roofs, wide eaves, and ornamental brackets. The Reardon mansion, as it became known, is explained in