Thursday we were all off to a sleepy start. Our watercolor drawings were due at eight a.m. that morning, and some of us had been up all night working on them. We each have chosen a tenant house (small house built to accommodate workers back in the days of the plantations), which we have lightly drafted onto Arches paper and will soon begin to watercolor. After Natalie reviewed our drawings, we headed back to the house and pods to nap, eat, and pack. We were given Friday off to go back to Auburn for an internship fair. When Dick arrived Thursday afternoon, we caravanned out to Tuscaloosa for our architecture history class. First we visited the Gorgas House on the Alabama University campus. Built in 1829, this was the first building constructed on the campus. At first, it was the campus dining hall but, because of discipline problems, was converted to faculty residences. The Gorgas family moved into the home in 1879 and remained until 1953. The house is now used for tours and learning the history of the university. About an hour later, frozen after sketching the front elevation of the house, we traveled to the Jemison-Van de Graaff mansion, which was built around 1860. The Italianate style house, designed by John Stewart, was built for entertaining, but was also once used as a library. The house had many features that were modern for the time, including indoor plumbing and lighting and a conservatory. We ended our day in Tuscaloosa with a frantic fifteen minute drawing of the first floor plan before heading our various directions for the weekend.