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A Brief History of the Stone House. Prince William County, Virginia (July 1995) Litterst, Michael D. The Stone House: Silent Sentinel at the Crossroads of History. (July 2005) OCLC 40274086. McDonald, JoAnna M. "We Shall Meet Again": The First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), July 18–21, 1861. (Oxford University Press, 1999).
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Stone purchased Haberdeventure in 1770 and began construction of a new home in 1771. Stone's original plan was to build a small, modest home for him, his wife Margaret, and their two daughters but before the house was completed, his father died and five of his younger brothers and sisters came to live with him at Haberdeventure creating the need for larger living quarters.
The Stone House Site is a historic house site in James City County, Virginia, near Toano. It is the location of house ruins of uncertain age. The ruins are of a stone house, built in a location where materials transport is not easy. The house was known to be of great antiquity in the 19th century.
The style is a contemporary take on a country inn – faded rugs on oak floors, white-washed rafters and polished-plaster walls, pictures and prints crammed joyfully – that never falls into ...
The two-story building sits on a 60 by 33 feet (18 by 10 m) base. All facades are made of locally quarried gray limestone.The since-modified original first floor plan of a center hall dividing a large room on one side from two smaller ones on the other is still evident in the basement layout, with the original winter kitchen in the southwest corner.
The Old Stone House stands among the neighborhood's stores and restaurants. The building is considered part of the Rock Creek Parkway urban natural area and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The Old Stone House is also a contributing property to the Georgetown Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. Today ...
The Poe Museum is located at the "Old Stone House", built circa 1740 [3] [4] and cited as the oldest original residential building in Richmond. [5]It was built by Jacob Ege, [6] [7] who immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1738 and came to the James River Settlements and Col. Wm. Byrd's land grant (now known as Richmond) in the company of the family of his fiancée, Maria Dorothea ...