Quiongua: The sobrado, or 2 story mission building.

Early 1900s. Photographer WP Dodson. Made of adobes painted inside and out, frames and pillars of solid mahogany, floors of clear red stone slabs and roof of Marseille tiles. Took 7 years to complete. Rev. Dodson wrote in the Minutes of the 1897 Congo Misson Conference, Quiongua: “No.8 is an uncompleted building, the largest we haye projected. The design is a two story building…. It is designed to have a porch all around, above and below, the entire spread being 35x50 feet…. Tons of stone were put into the foundation, which is continued above the ground two feet on the front. On this foundation the walls have been built up to the second story. This work, together with the partial paving of the veranda, the staircase on the outside, etc., is all that is built at present; but the girders, rafters, and some of the other wood material is already sawed and is seasoning. Most of the French tiles are on the ground, and we had expected to strike in early this present dry season and get the building under cover before the rainy season; but instead, we find ourselves sitting at Bishop Hartzell's feet, seeking to learn and counsel together for the most perfect possible completion of not only this, but all God shall intimate to us as his good pleasure for us in the entire province.” [http://images.library.yale.edu/divinitycontent/dayrep/Methodist%20Episcopal%20Church.%20Congo%20Mission%20Conference%20%201897%20v1.pdf] 45362