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Judge Henry Wood House 6

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[This is one of 7 images in the set] The Judge Henry Wood, Jr. home in Clarksville, Virginia is a two-story brick (Flemish bond) Queen Anne house. Begun between 1820 and 1840, it had two later additions, one in 1872 and the other in the 1880s. These additions, however, are not obvious, testifying to the abilities of the builders (architects) to create a unified structure that appears to have been erected all at one time. Originally an I-house with end chimneys, two wings were subsequently added—the section with outside stairs and the octagonal end. The roof is standing-seam metal and is low-pitched, below which is a wooden cornice and brackets. The one-story front entry porch consists of 3 bays delineated by slender turned posts and ornamental brackets, a spindle frieze, and a balustrade at the roofline of the second-level. The double-leaf front door is of wood with recessed, decorated panels and a transom of 2 segments. Above the porch roof is a pair of 2/2 sash windows. And above the second-floor is a gable, intersecting the main roof, with a triangular brick pattern (vent?) and an ornamented bargeboard. The two-story porch in the left wing mimics the details of the front entry porch, but the decoration is not as involved; here is the outside stairway leading to a small porch on the second level of that wing. Most windows are 2/2 sash and have brick labels which project slightly from the walls. Aside from heating and plumbing matters, there’ve been no major alterations in the structure after the 1880s. A succession of families has owned and occupied the house—Shelton, Andrews, Mahone, Downer and Wood. The Mahone was General William Mahone, a general in the Confederate army who moved his family to Clarksville for the duration of the Civil War; Mahone, though losing political races for governorship of Virginia, was elected in 1881 to the U. S. Senate.

The interior of the structure is described in the NRHP nomination form as is the complicated ownership of the house. It was listed on the National register of Historic Places late in 1999 with ID #99001201. My main source of information has been the nomination form located at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (VDHR) website.

www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Mecklenburg/192-0...

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Col. L. H. N. Salyer House, Whitesburg, KY 1

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[The set contains 4 photos] The home of Col. Logan Henry Neil Salyer (1835-1916) was built about 1900 (Whitesburg, Letcher County, Kentucky). He was an officer in the Confederacy (CSA) and a Whitesburg attorney. The NRHP nomination form describes this as a Colonial Revival-style cottage; but to me it has features of a bungalow. The gabled roof is lateral and is shingled with a very pronounced overhang. Only a small amount of lacy gingerbread is in the gable. A row of 5 shed dormer windows, each with 6 panes, is visible from the front. The exterior on the first level is weatherboarded and above this in the gables are square-butt wood shingles. Fenestration includes flat-topped windows and round-arched windows on the sides, a sun-burst motif carried out by the panes. The windows are mostly 6/6 double-sash. The entrance is up stone steps from the street. A pedimented entrance with square-butt wood shingles is above the entrance to the glassed-in porch; two slender tapered columns support the roof of this small entry porch. Recessed panels are to either side of the single-leaf wooden door with elaborate stained glass decoration in floral and geometric design. The sidelights are stained glass as well, single-paned and parallel to the entire doorway; a small transom of two separated stained glass panes is above. The porch windows provide symmetry with 5 to either side of the entrance. At street level is an ashlar stone wall with a date stone stating 1932, and above that is a cast iron fence. The nomination form stated the structure had been used as a bread-and-breakfast, but I don’t know its current status. The Col. Salyer House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Whitesburg Historic District—September 12, 2006 with ID #06000813.

For more information on Whitesburg Historic District see
pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/06000813.pdf

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Judge Henry Wood House 3

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Judge Henry Wood House 1

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Dr. George C. Shaw House 3

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[The Dr. George C. Shaw House set has 7 images] This 1921 brick bungalow in Oxford, North Carolina was the home of Dr. George C. Shaw (1863-?). He was born in Louisburg, North Carolina and educated at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) and then obtained a doctorate in theology at Auburn Seminary (New York). He was the founding pastor of Timothy Darling Presbyterian Church (1888) in Oxford and established the Mary Potter School (or Academy) a year later, named for its benefactress Mrs. B. F. Potter of Schenectady, New York. It filled a void in the education of blacks in the area. Until 1936 it was the only high school for African-Americans in Granville County. In the early days of the school religion was a major course of study; but as the school grew, industrial arts and agriculture became important. Over many years several additions were made to the campus, but today only one classroom structure (the Industrial Arts Building) exists in addition to the residence of Dr. Shaw, which houses a museum. I’ve been by the museum several times but unfortunately have not found it open.

Thomas L. Hicks, an instructor at the school, along with students from the Academy built the house. This 2-story red brick bungalow is larger than it appears from a frontal view. It has steep cross gables with shingle roof which also covers the porch, which in itself consists of cross gables. The front façade shows shed dormer windows, 6/1 double sash and surrounded by wood shingles. There’s only one chimney which becomes incorporated into the porch. There are wide eaves with brackets with most being at the porch roofline. Most windows are 16/1 double sash except in dormers and the porch. The porch is spacious with the roof supported by large wood posts on blocks of brick, resembling double-shoulder chimneys. The posts are tapered towards the top with recessed panels on each of the fours sides. The angularity of the support provides a pleasurable visual tension, contrasting with the straight lines of the structure. The porch floor is brick but the steps are stone. The door is glass with 15 panes in 5 rows of three each; to either side are narrow 4/1 double sash windows. On the left is a porte-cochère (car-port), giving symmetry to the front façade, balancing the porch extension to the right. The Dr. George C. Shaw House was listed April 28, 1988 on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Oxford Historic District—reference #88000403

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House in Hampden-Sydney 5

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[The set contains 7 images] Regrettably I don’t know anything of this beautifully maintained home—the date or any history. It is a 2-story wood structure with Victorian features and muted colors. I don’t think it’s Eastlake even though there are areas of shingling that provide visual texture. A front gable in the steep-pitched roof parallels the left façade, and a prominent shingled bay is on the right façade. Both gable and bay have shingles, the gable characterized by alternating fish-scale and rectangular patterns. The shingling in the bay is fish-scale except for two rows of rectangular separating first and second stories. The multi-paned windows (30/1) throughout the house are a feature of the Queen Anne style (see image 7). The window in the second level of the front gable offers a contrast with panes being 2/2. On the left front façade the walls of the house do not meet at a right angle; this asymmetrical feature also contains a 1/1 window with woodwork decorated with a sun-ray motif (see image 6). A band of darker wood separates the first from the second story, and another band separates the first level from the foundation. The porch has turned posts which support the gently sloping roof. There are brackets as well as ornamental designs in the railings. I was unable to obtain a good shot of the wide single-leaf door, which has three lower panels accented by molding below a single pane.

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House at Fort Mitchell 2

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[This is one of 5 images in a set] I have no information on the date or history of this house, but the embellishments would make me guess very late 19th century. It also has certain features in common with the Italianate style—heavy use of ornamental brackets, narrow windows and a substantial overhang. It is situated in the loose-knit community of Fort Mitchell just inside Charlotte County. The 2-story wood frame house had a moderately-pitched metal roof with an interior chimney. The brackets are mostly in pairs with a geometric design in wood between the pairs; the design seems to be an arrow motif. Structurally the house has a cross gable with a front gable projection in the front façade. A bargeboard with curved bottom fills the gable from roof to cornice, where an ornamental design is in a curved cornice. Splitting the center vertically is a square post-like feature with a knob at each end. A prominent bay is in the lower level of this front projection, the woodwork in the cornice the same as previously mentioned. The three 1/1 sash windows are separated by wooden embedded (?) columns; the windows are much narrower than in the other area of the front façade. A recessed panel design is below each window. It’s possible that a balustrade once existed above the porch; a door opens onto the roof and seems to lead nowhere. The door has simple molding, the top section with 9 panes and the bottom with 2 vertical panels. Above the door and one window are possible vents; they appear to be made of metal and are elaborately patterned. The porch, a little over half the width of the front façade, has a shed-type roof supported by square posts. These posts are elaborately bracketed with an X inside a circle inside a square. The porch railings brace horizontal strips of wood at top and bottom. The double-leaf wooden door has long vertical rectangular panels below which are recessed square panels. One the sides of the entrance are pilasters and to the side of the pilasters are sidelights of three even-sized panes. A segmented transom is above the door. Below the wood porch level is lattice work extending to the ground. The foundation appears to be stone, but under the bay is concrete.

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House in Hampden-Sydney 2

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