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The Wythe House is a historic house on the Palace Green in Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Built in the 1750s, it was the home of George Wythe, signer of the Declaration of Independence and father of American jurisprudence. [4] [5] The property was declared a National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970. [4] [5]
George Wythe (/ w ɪ θ /; 1726 – June 8, 1806) [1] [2] was an American academic, scholar, and judge who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.The first of the seven signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence from Virginia, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and served on a committee ...
Richard Taliaferro (/ ˈ t ɒ l ɪ v ər / TOL-iv-ər; c. 1705 –1779) was a colonial architect and builder in Williamsburg, Virginia, in what is now the United States. Among his works is Wythe House, a Georgian-style building that was built in 1750 or 1755.
Woodlawn, 1805, Fairfax County — home of George Washington's niece and nephew, and a National Trust Historic Site; Wythe House, 1754, Williamsburg — home of George Wythe; Stratford Hall Plantation, 1730
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The district first developed in the 1880s, and is composed generally of six primary subdivisions with the last platted in the 1930s. The earliest building is the John Simpson House, built in 1849. [5] Suburban development in the district was spurred by the growth of two nearby cities, Hampton and Newport News. The district experienced a boom in ...
Betsy Sweeney bought a crumbling 130-year-old house for $18,000 in Wheeling, West Virginia and renovated it into a gorgeous historic home — complete with its original pocket doors, Victorian ...
According to data from Realtor.com, the median price for a home in the United States sat at around $330,000 at the time Sweeney bought the house, compared to May 2024’s median price of $438,483.