Day 292
John Hampden Randolph was born to a wealthy Virginia family in Nottoway County, Virginia on March 24, 1813.
Nottoway Plantation, named after the County in which he was born, is located in White Castle, Louisiana, about 76 miles west of New Orleans. The plantation mansion was built by John Randolph in 1859 for his wife and 11 children, and is the largest antebellum plantation house in the South with 53,000 square feet of living space.
Nottoway has over an acre of floor space spread out over three floors, with a total of 64 rooms, 165 doors and 200 windows, most of which can also double as doors.
Before the union troops took over, it was a sugarcane plantation.
The 5th Wheel - Now on 4 Wheels 
That’s just a tad bigger than the Sphinx!! And do you know why there were so many windows that could double as doors? At one time there was a tax on doors, so windows were made to double as both. It was known as the Jefferson (yes the president) window. I would suppose there were no closets in the house, but armoires. For the same reason – there was a tax on doors.
That is correct, you can see the floor to ceiling windows above.
No big deal. I grew up in the same size house, if my memory serves me correctly. What memory?
I know what you mean about memory. What else was I going to type?
Do you know when Andrew Jackson’s birthday is?
By the way what is my fabulous prize for guessing what the 12th day of Christmas means ?🎊😄🎉
Of course I know when his birthday is, the same day as Warren’s. Your fabulous prize is a choice of any of the beads that I caught at Mardi Gras carnival in New Orleans.
I was born on the same day as Andrew Jackson? There goes my self esteem. I thought we were complete opposites.