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Inside Orange Hall

Generally, visitors enter Orange Hall from the rear, kitchen, ground floor entrance. That's where they have an office, a little book shop, an area to watch a video, and a dining / tea room.

The kitchen has a double fireplace in the center of the room. The photo to the right shows only one side.

During the time when many houses were built with detached kitchen, building this home with an attached kitchen certainly posed a fire risk.

I'm really not sure what furnishing, if any, are original to the home. However, some attempts have been made to at least use period pieces.

Below is a grinding stone, also in the kitchen area. Notice the rough floor and walls. The finer details were definitely saved for the upper floors.

The second floor, or main floor, consists of four rooms which are set up as sitting rooms, dens, etc.

This fireplace is, of course, said to be haunted. I was told that it could not be photographed. As you can see, it can be. In fact, in the original print you can see details from inside the fireplace. This scan does not reflect the detail of the original.

From the main floor landing the staircase is visible. Clearly one of the most striking features of this otherwise somewhat plain home.

In one of the first floor rooms is a framed certificate stating:

Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
This is to certify that this Historic Building known as Orange Hall in the county of Camden and the state of Georgia has been selected by the Advisory Committee of the Historic American Buildings Survey as possessing exceptional historic or architectural interest and as being worthy of most careful preservation for the benefit of future generations and that to this end a record of its present appearance and condition has been made and deposited for permanent reference in the Library of Congress.

There are four bedrooms on the top floor. A hallway runs down the center of the building. Two rooms are on each side of the hallway. The two rooms on either side are connected to each other through doorways. A two-sided fireplace lies between each pair of rooms. This arrangement would be convenient for parents wanting to stay near infants - but not have to sleep in the same room with them! No, there weren't any bathrooms. Chamber pots, like the one in this photo, were used. Below is a photo of the same room from a differnet angle.

Above: One of the bedrooms is set up as a sewing room.

Below : I didn't take photos of all of the rooms, but here's another bedroom.

The staircase leading downstairs. The front door can be seen in the background.

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