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The Victorian mansion was built in 1904.
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The home is constructed entirely of heart pine wood.
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Columns that are as wide as many of the surrounding trees flank the front door with its heavy beveled glass insets that have rippled under the weight of years. The spacious interior contains 18 rooms.
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There are 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, 12 fireplaces, office, parlor, study, living, dining, kitchen, utility room, and third-floor ballroom in the 7500 square foot house.
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Toy Arnett, owner of Tannenheim and Bennie Barnes, Mayor of Century have coffee in the kitchen.
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The kitchen stove is a replica of a wood burning model.
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This is a fireplace in one of the upstairs bedrooms. Only five rooms in the mansion do not have a fireplace.
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There are unique storage rooms on the second floor. Homes of this period did not have closets in bedrooms. Special rooms were dedicated to linen, pantries and utility services because servants took care of those chores.
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This room served as a breezeway on hot evenings. It is located above the formal side entry.
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The wood trim, ceilings and floors have been restored throughout the house. The staircase in the background leads to the third floor ballroom.
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The fan was placed at the third floor level to pull air through the house. Presently five central air conditioning units are located in the house so that no duct work is intrusive.
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There is a small balcony overlooking the front driveway and garden off the second floor hall.
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The mansion was built by one of the owners of the Alger Sullivan lumber mill.
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The sheltered portico is attached to the west side of the house.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Century, Florida was the nation's leading producer of Southern pine timber.
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Pecan orchards flank the house in three directions.
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A long entrance road leads up a hill to the three-story mansion.
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A row of crape myrtle trees line the driveway.
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The property is located on Highway 4A.
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The carriage house is located directly behind the main house.
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The stable and pump house are located adjacent to the carriage house in the rear of the property.
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The back of the main house can be seen in the left side of the photograph.
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The water was pumped from an artisan spring to the house.
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There are many old hardwood trees on the property, such as the oak pictured above.
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The lake is approximately eight acres.
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The steps lead into a shallow area. The pond was used as a swimming pool.
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The lake is decked on the east side with concrete.
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A man-made waterfall functions as the spillway for the lake.
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The rocks that form the waterfalls were brought from the old lumber mill.
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Tannenheim is German for fir tree house.
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The lake is surrounded by mature oaks and native hardwoods.
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There are 11 homes that have waterfront property at the entrance to the Bayou. Most of those property owners have docks and boathouses.
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The camera truck, the sound van and the generator power plant were parked near the east side of the home.
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The peanut is a nitrogen-fixing plant. The roots form nodules, which absorb nitrogen from the air and provide enrichment and nutrition to the plant and soil.
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Americans are eating more peanuts overall; more peanut butter and more snack peanuts.Total peanut consumption has been on the upward trend since 1996. Snack peanuts are up by 13.3 percent over the past year.
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The pond is within the city limits of Milton off Duck Roost Road.
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Water oak, overcup oak, diamond-leaf oak, water hickory, sugarberry, several species of ash, American sycamore and river birch are among the more commonly seen trees.
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The exterior color scheme was based on reserch on the Gamble House in Pasadena designed by the Greene brothers.
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The East Indies style home is nestled in the sand dunes.
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The building is on the northwest corner of Chase and Tarragona Streets. In 2002 the building was elaborately decorated and renamed the "Candy Factory" for the Christmas season. The firm received the grand prize in the Pensacola Historic District Property Owners Christmas Decorating Contest.
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The home is an example of the 'late Cracker' four-square Georgian with classic principles of symmetry, formality and elegance. The building tradition was passed down from the earliest single-pen examples built in the country. The four-square is the town house version of the style.
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Festive lights decorate the building during the holiday season in the historic district.
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Gobbler Road is in the Walnut Hill Community off Highway 97.
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There are thousands of acres in cultivation in the Walnut Hill community planted in a variety of crops.
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There are cotton fields stretching for several miles on both sides of Kansas Road.
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Mennonite farmers are making agriculture a viable way of life in Escambia County.
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The ideal blueberry plant should have at most sixteen canes - one or two for each year, up to eight years of growth.
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Deer abound is the protected habitat on the Gulf Islands National Seashore.